Bringing about the conditions needed for a durable twostate deal would necessitate currently unthinkable shifts in some longstanding assumptions held by Israeli Jews. A deal sufficiently durable to withstand postagreement pressure from Palestinian dissidents would need to include three components:
If a change in Israeli political consciousness great enough to accept such a deal is a necessary but unachievable prerequisite of a twostate solution, what can we hope and act to achieve? The reluctant conclusion offered by Michael Lerner in this issue of Tikkun — that we ought to replace policies guided by domination with strategies inspired by generosity — nosedives into the pool of wellmeaning and impractical approaches to the PalestinianIsraeli dilemma.
A “one person, one vote” campaign could, as Lerner suggests, have as its goal pressuring Israel to negotiate a twostate deal, but that may be no easier than a campaign whose goal truly is one person,...
