The One State Reality: Understanding Israel and Palestine Conflict - History, Politics & Solutions for Peace Studies & Global Affairs

I am about half way done, I got the book thinking beforehand a Two State solution was ideal. Now when I hear on the news politicians talking about a Two State solution, it means something very different after reading this book. If there is a bias for or against Israel, I could not detect it. What seems profound is, a Two State solution is too late, too much has happened and now the players in the game are not in favor of it. What seems ideal now is the books One State solution where citizens are treated with respect and not different based on ethnicity or religion; no preferences for anything. It feels from the book Israel is biased toward a religious priority and favoritism to Jews, wanting to be a Jewish state more than a democracy, and the Palestinians are thus treated as second class in all respects. Hence, even a Two State solution would be dominated by Israel and citizens not treated as equal, with no preferences granted or actions taken to favor one over the other. One benefit of this book for me is to highlight that the war in Ukraine has nothing in common with the war in the Middle East, but maybe because I am for an unconditional funding for Ukraine and feel Israel needs to rethink its treatment of Palestinians if it wants true peace.