One Land, Two States

Mark LeVine is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, a contributing editor for Tikkun, and a senior columnist for Al Jazeera. He is the author of Overthrowing Geography and the coeditor of Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel (both from UC Press). Mathias Mossberg is a retired Swedish ambassador with extensive personal experience from the peace process and related track-two diplomacy as well as from mediation efforts in other conflicts. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

"A coterie of bold, open-minded international academics offers a fresh paradigm for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence... A visionary approach so daring that it could actually work." Kirkus "In an effort to circumvent a seemingly bleak future, a group of Israeli and Palestinian scholars is proposing and examining an interesting and provocative paradigm shift ... these essayists provide some interesting and refreshing ideas." -- Jay Freeman Booklist "The idea merits further exploration." Publishers Weekly "A perceptual and cognitive turnaround aimed at formulating a solution to the situation. And it may well be that this is precisely what it takes to get out of the impasse the diplomatic process has reached." -- Arad Nir Al-Monitor "A provocative and daring new approach to peacefully meeting the national rights of Israelis and Palestinians." -- Rami G. Khouri Agence Global "It is evident that the editors put considerable thought into seeking a fine balance between Israeli and Palestinian scholars-and this is done quite artfully." Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs "Throughout the book, Levine, and Mossberg investigate every aspect of of the idea of "Parallel States." They analyze a new coexistence of Israel and Palestine at all levels: economic, religious, judicial; and how it would prevent the emergence of tensions between the communities." -- Joan Catala Margarit afkar/ideas "[One land, two states] stimulates new thinking towards resolving the Israel- Palestine conflict." -- Muhammad Yaseen Gada Intellectual Discourse "One Land, Two States performs a valuable service in presenting a different framework for discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... the questions it raises are provocative and worthy of further thought and discussion." Contemporary Jewry

• List of Illustrations Foreword: Two States on One Land--Parallel States as an Option for Israel and Palestine Alvaro de Soto Preface Mathias Mossberg and Mark LeVine 1. One Land--Two States? An Introduction to the Parallel States Concept Mathias Mossberg 2. Can Sovereignty Be Divided? Jens Bartelson 3. Parallel Sovereignty: Dividing and Sharing Core State Functions Peter Wallensteen 4. Security Strategy for the Parallel States Project: An Israeli Perspective Nimrod Hurvitz and Dror Zeevi 5. Palestinian National Security Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi 6. An Israel-Palestine Parallel States Economy by 235 Raja Khalidi 7. Economic Considerations in Implementing a Parallel States Structure Raphael Bar-El 8. Parallel Sovereignty in Practice: Judicial Dimensions of a Parallel States Structure Various authors, compiled by Mathias Mossberg 9. Religion in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: From Obstacle to Peace to Force for Reconciliation? Mark LeVine and Liam O'Mara IV 10. The Necessity for Thinking outside the Box Hiba Husseini 11. Parallel Lives, Parallel States: Imagining a Different Future Eyal Megged Contributors Index