Jacobin Radio: A Confederated State Solution? w/ Omer Bartov

<p><a href="https://pdamerica.org/about-pda/national-staff/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Alan Minsky</a>, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, spoke with Israeli historian and Genocide Studies scholar <a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/obartov" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Omer Bartov</a> at a public forum this week about the Israel/Gaza crisis. Bartov published two widely read pieces in November:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">"What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide,"</a><em>New York Times</em>, November 10, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/29/israel-gaza-settlement-palestine-end-occupation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">"A political stalemate led to the bloodshed in the Middle East. Only a political settlement can truly end it,"</a> published in the <em>Guardian</em> November 29. Their conversation focuses on the necessity of relaunching serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians to achieve a just, long-term, political solution to the 75-year conflict in Israel/Palestine, a demand they insist activists and the left in general should foreground immediately. Professor Bartov puts forward <a href="https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">his proposal</a> for a political solution that Alan Minsky describes as a “Confederated State Solution, neither a one-state nor a two-state solution, but something in-between.”</p>

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