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This impeccably researched but accessible book exploring the Israel–Palestine conflict balances history, politics and human experience to make the case for a one-state solution, arguing that the conflict has its roots in a toxic mix of European racism and Christian fundamentalism, forces that have combined to produce what has plausibly been called a setter-colonial state. Israel–Palestine and the Case for One State marks a significant contribution to international relations literature and provides a clear-eyed, structural critique of the current Western foreign policy consensus.
“Martin Cohen offers both a distinctive contribution to the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and a blueprint for its future. Drawing on deep knowledge of philosophy and comparative history, this rich analysis provides essential context for understanding today’s realities and future possibilities.”—Dr Ilan Pappé, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK.
“A rigorous and morally serious examination of Israel–Palestine that refuses easy formulas. By tracing how political realities grow out of earlier ideological and colonial decisions, it reframes the one-state argument as an ethical conclusion rather than a slogan. It is a challenging and necessary contribution to contemporary debate.”—Yahia Lababidi, writer of Palestinian heritage, and author of If You Cannot Say Genocide.
Martin Cohen is a political philosopher and writer specializing in philosophy, ethics, and social science. The author of numerous books, which have been translated into over twenty languages, his work focuses on deconstructing complex ideological systems and making critical philosophy accessible to a global general readership.
Prologue; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 It Starts with a Lie; Chapter 2 A War Without End; Chapter 3 Jabotinsky, Identity and the Iron Wall; Chapter 4 Apartheid and Fear; Chapter 5 A Brief History of Settler-Colonialism; Chapter 6 The Case for One Democratic State; Chapter 7 Israel’s Silenced Conscience; Chapter 8 The Jewish Lobby, International Politics and Israeli Exceptionalism; Chapter 9 Learning from Other Struggles; Chapter 10 Between Catastrophe and Coexistence; Epilogue: Pity the Looters; Index.