These Israelis and Palestinians Look Beyond War to 'A Land For All'

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As fighting between Israel and Hamas continues, what will happen after the war ends? The so-called two state solution has long been one of the most prominent ideas, where independent states of Israel and Palestine exist side-by-side, but previous attempts to solidify an agreement have fallen short. We’ll talk with members of A Land For All, a group of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, activists and scholars who have a new political vision of how to live together with “pragmatic and viable solutions to the obstacles that have stymied prior negotiations, moving us from a paradigm of separation towards a future based on power sharing and shared interests.” We’ll talk about their vision for a road to peace and an intertwined future. Guests: Omar Dajani, professor of law, University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law; board member, "A Land For All"; former senior legal advisor, Palestine Liberation Organization's Negotiations Support Unit May Pundak, co-leader and executive director, the Israeli branch of “A Land for All” Rula Hardal, lecturer, Arab-American University; research fellow, the Shalom Hartman Institute; co-leader, "A Land For All" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.8	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. I hear a lot of hopelessness from people I know about what's happening in Gaza. No matter what they think about the war Israel embarked upon after the Hamas attacks of October 7th, no one seems to know what could come after a ceasefire. The current Israeli government says it's committed to the long-term
1:33.8	military occupation of Gaza, but American and Arab diplomats are pushing for a two-state solution,
1:38.9	which is to say the creation of a real Palestinian state. Today, we talk with a land for all, a group of Israelis and Palestinians who are working together
1:49.1	to build a new slate of ideas for making a two-state solution a reality.
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2:10.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It's difficult to talk about the day after the Israel Hamas war ends while it's still going on. More than 30,000 Gazans have died. The region's
2:17.2	infrastructure, such as it was, has been
2:18.8	leveled. And this is to say nothing of the hostages still held or the two million Arab Israelis
2:24.9	living in Israel who have seen their lives turned upside down too. But the short-term end of
2:29.9	violence and any long-term peace are linked. There has to be something to work towards, and there are
2:35.6	many visions for what that could look like. Today, we bring you one of them. We're joined by three
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