David Remnick on the Future of the Two-State Solution

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🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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President Obama had ambitions to bring peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but relations between the United States and Israel’s rightwing government have fallen to an alltime low. With a new Administration in Washington, the prospects for a twostate solution now seem almost impossible. Dani Dayan, the Consul General of Israel in New York, discusses his call for “peaceful nonreconciliation”; pollster Khalil Shikaki explains why some Palestinians accept a onestate solution that strikes them as reminiscent of apartheid; and Merav Michaeli, a Labor Party member of Israel’s Knesset, asserts that there is still a chance—however slim—for a negotiated peace.

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0:50.2	On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick discusses the future of Israel and Palestine
0:56.0	with three people close to the conflict.
0:59.0	Counsel General of Israel, Donny Dayan, Palestinian pollster Khalil Shakaki, and Israeli
1:05.2	member of parliament, Marav Mekali.
1:11.5	David.
1:12.8	Hey, how are you?
1:14.2	I'm fine. How are you?
1:16.4	Just swell. Everything in the world is going perfectly.
1:20.1	Yes, it's our dream world.
1:24.7	That's Marav McAley, a Labor Party member of the Israeli Parliament.
1:28.6	And if she's sarcastic about the state of things today, it's because being a liberal
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