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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A book which takes all arguments head on...and wins,
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This review is from: The One-state Solution: A Breakthrough Plan for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) (Hardcover)
There have been many books written about Palestine and Israel. Most of them deal with archival facts and figures relating to the Palestine/Israel tragedy.
Virginia Tilley's book takes each and every position put forward by all sides in the conflict, especially those for whom the two-state solution provided the easy way out, and tackles them head on. This seminal and timely work was written back in 2005. Since that time, the two-state solution has been dying a slow death, thanks to Israel's colonisation, annexation and expropriation of Palestinian land. Israel's creation of 'facts on the ground' are seriously and clearly analysed and argued by Dr Tilley thus making today's talk of 'a freeze on settlement building' sound like hog-wash. There already exists a one state in historic Palestine. What it lacks is democracy. So, get the book and get real.
1 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Recipe for a second holocaust,
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The One-state Solution: A Breakthrough Plan for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) (Hardcover)
Virginia Tilley distorts history, demonizes the Jewish people, and skips over fact.
Tilley ((a Hamas supporter) denies Israel's right to exist and calls for a 'unitary' Arab dominated 'Palestine' to replace Israel, in which Jews would be a helpless minority at the mercy and whim of HAMAS , as the Jews in Europe and the Arab countries (from which 800 000 Jews where expelled in 1948.) were at the mercy of their persecutors. If Tilley's demmand became a reality, Jews would wait, huddled in their ghettos, to be massacred by the Arabs. YTilley and others who call for Israel's replacement by a 'unitary Palestine' know full well that this would lead to a second Holocaust of Israel's five million Jews. How well did the 'unitary state ' work in Lebanon where hundreds of thousands of Christian Lebanese were massacred by the PLO and Syrians and went from being a majority in 1975 to a minority today? How well did the Animist and Christian Nilotic Blacks in Darfur and Southern Sudan fare in Sudan where millions have been massacred, or the Kurds in Iraq where 800 000 were butchered by Saddam Hussein?We all know how minorities fare in Arab countries and what makes anyone think the Jews in your suggested 'unitary Palestine' would fare any better, given the amount of hate in Palestinian society for Israel's Jews. Why out of a massive landmass under Arab control , and a number of Arab states (today they number 22) it is regarded as such an injustice that a number of Arabs should be a minority in a Jewish State, where they enjoy full civil and political rights. Jewish statelessness had led to the slaughter of 6 million Jews during the holocaust. Tilley falsely refers to the nation-state as an anachronism, conveniently ignoring currents events around the world and recent history. Those insulated academics who refer to the nation-state as an anachronism are ignoring the message of recent history, which has seen the birth (or rebirth) of a plethora of nation-sates, from the ruins of enforced multi-national artificial entities : Hence in the last 18 years we have seen the independence of nation-states including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Eritrea and East Timor. The meaning of Israel is clear. The Jew has experienced too much death, and a portion of the Jewish people decided that they would die quietly no more (especially after Hitler's Holocaust). So it is: and no argument, no clever political talk, no logic and no parading of right and wrong can change this fact.The Jews returned to Israel because it was their ancient land. From 1810 onwards, Jews in the Land of Israel have been murdered by Arabs. The pious Jews of Safed, who would raise no hand in their defense, were robbed and murdered and burned out again and again by Arabs - as where the Jews in Jerusalem and Tiberias. Bedouin Arabs passed through Land of Israel at will-and robbed and killed Jews for profit. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Arab feudal lords in the Land of Israel organized pogroms precisely as the Tsar had organized pogroms. In 1920 Jews where massacred by Arabs in Jerusalem, in 1921 in Jaffa and in 1929 in Hebron. Thousands of Jews where murdered in 1936 to 1939 in the Nazi inspired Arab Revolt. Since 1948 Arabs have launched wars against Israel to try to drive Jews into the sea and since Arafat launched the latest war in 2000, after rejecting a peace deal, thousands of Jewish men women and children have died in Israel by bomb, bullet and knife. Jews will never again be put into a position where they can be subjected to another Holocaust (particularly in the ancient Jewish homeland). p.s Virginia Tilley now lives in South africa where she leads a campaign to demonize Israel and bully the Jewish community that supports Israel. Her rhetoric is vicious and fanatical, and racist against the Jews of Israel.
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3.6 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Opening a "Forbidden Debate",
By J. L. Spates - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The One-State Solution (Hardcover)
The great advantage of Virginia Tilley's new book, in this commentator's eyes, is that it should reintroduce an issue that, for reasons much too complex to go into here, has long been "off the table": the hypothesis that the only viable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem is to find a way for the disputing and warring sides to live together. In the early parts of her book, Tilley argues that the policy of "in-fill" of Jewish settlements into areas that might have, once, been part of a possible (if resource-poor, surrounded-by hostile others) Palestinian homeland, have made such a homeland utterly unfeasible. Given this, the only solution is to create a single state wherein, in the creation of that state, the two sides have worked long and hard to find ways to accommodate their differences. Tilley is of course powerfully aware that the practical obstacles--and arguments against--such a solution are enormous, but no more so, she contends, than the practical obstacles and arguments facing any serious two state solution. In the latter part of the book, Tilley attempts to wend her way through the rock and a hard place she has "created," as she tries to meet objections and "pave the way" for serious discussion of the issue. The only reason I give this book a "four" instead of a "five" is that, by book's end, it isn't clear, to me at least, that the "one-state solution" is going to work either--even if (and it's a big "if") those involved in the conflict get down to brass tacks concerning her thesis. However, that's a minor quibble: for generations, the problem has proved intractable and she should hardly be held responsible for not "solving absolutely" a conundrum that has perplexed luminaries and people of good will--on both sides--for a half century and more. But this much she has done--and it is much: a serious student of the region and its issues, a scholar empathetic with the problems faced by each side--particularly with the problems faced by Palestinians--she has given us a clear, sophisticated, well-argued "new idea" to consider about a major world problem. Her book's great contribution is its ability to put before us, seriously, an alternative way to continue intelligent debate about the central issues and enormous suffering going on in that small, incredibly important, seemingly God-forsaken, part of the world she takes as her subject. Very much worth reading and debating, in other words.
53 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Changed my whole view,
By Writer in the Berkshires - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The One-State Solution (Hardcover)
I first heard about this book from friends who are angry about it, so I figured I wouldn't bother with it. After all, only some seriously ignorant ideologue would think a one-state solution for this conflict could ever work, right? But then one of my uncles, who happens to be a Holocaust survivor, told me to read it and not have preconceptions, and that it had given him hope for the first time in years.
So partly out of curiosity and partly to be nice to him I picked up a copy. I couldn't put it down, read it in five days, stayed up after midnight... it wrecked several nights' sleep. First, Tilley writes plain brilliantly. Each chapter flows like a page-turner, which isn't easy to do with this kind of material. Mainly, though, she has so many facts at hand, and works through the arguments so carefully, that her argument hit me as air-tight. After each chapter I felt my whole understanding of this conflict spinning around on its axis. But just when I was ready to despair, Tilley offered a way forward that is truly inspirational to me, and that's not easy for a middle-aged Jewish cynic to say about any book these days, let alone one on the Middle East. By the last page, I had tears in my eyes... and nothing to do with them except write this review. Anyone who trashes this book hasn't read it. Tilley covers so much ground, from history to sociology and geography... it makes a complete picture. She is also very careful, and balanced in her way, but not in that false meaning of "balance" that really means not dealing with Israel's policies and what is really going on, even if those facts are terribly painful to face. I felt her compassion in every line even while she was trashing some of my most closely held beliefs. I wanted to attack her argument several times but never could... rest assured, the book has full references for those who care about such things. Yet it escapes the academic trap (I see from the cover that she's a political science professor) and flows so well that most of us non-academics can float right through it. But this book isn't just gripping. It's important. I've talked to my friends about putting together a reading group just on this book. Some great classroom debates could come out of it, I imagine. My only advice to anyone picking up this book is to really READ it... read all of it, maybe a chapter at a time, because you have to get the entire picture to realize how much ground it covers and how powerful it is, and how much it matters that we all start dealing with a one-state solution. Before I read this book, I thought the idea was nuts. After reading it, I think we can do it... but more, we have to do it. 60 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The One-Book Solution,
By John Haines - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The One-State Solution (Hardcover)
For anyone who is curious about the conflict in Israel-Palestine, for anyone
who would like to know the the whys and wherefores of this dispute that has lasted for over a century, for anyone who doesn't have a lot of time on their hands to read all the available literature on the subject (and no one has that much time), just spend a couple of evenings with this book and you will have a good handle on what is really happening over there and what needs to be done to find peace between these Semitic peoples. For anyone who is curious enough to look up the maps of the proposed division of what was once called Palestine into two states, Israel and Palestine, it is quite obvious: the 2-state solution cannot possibly happen. In fact, as Tilley makes abundantly clear, the 2-state solution really never existed as a factual possibility - it was a propagandistic diversion from the real issue - how the Arabs and Jews in this tiny land could live together without killing each other. It isn't as complicated as many would like you to believe. Both Israelis and Palestinians want and need the same thing - a place where they can raise their children in safety and enjoy God's blessings - by the way, its the same God for both of them - but both want the same land. Why one group, the Israelis, should claim that their God gave them title to the land that was once called Palestine and has been inhabited by people, now called Palestinians, for centuries is beyond me. They claim it is decreed in the Bible but one can read many interpretations into biblical texts - such as, white immigrants to North America are manifestly destined by God to remove, subjugate or destroy all indigenous people, because they had suntans, and of course because they happened to be in the way. What Virginia Tilley does is cut through all this crap and bring us to where we are now. Israel-Palestine, in particular the West Bank (since they have recently removed the settlements from Gaza), is so divided by immense settlements (some are actually small cities) and roads to service these settlements - much as Ariel Sharon predicted long ago with his cut-them-up-like-a-pastrami-sandwich, facts-on-the-ground strategy - that the possible establishment of two states is finished, dead, fuggedaboutit. There is no way in hell that any Israeli politician can advocate the dismantlement of these settlements which would entail moving hundreds of thousands of Israelis to some other place in Israel. Therefore there is simply no room or resources remaining for any second state to be established. Another solution that is frequently mentioned, particularly by Zionist fanatics, is that all the Arabs now living either in the occupied territories or Israel proper be forcibly "transferred" to Jordan or other Arab countries and be done with. After all, they say, there is so much Arab land and so little for Israel. Tilley dismisses this possibility, a brutal ethnic cleansing the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Holocaust, as unlikely due to international outrage. I am not so confident. But what about the idea that these two peoples can live together in the same place? For that I suggest reading this book. If there is one book that I could recommend on the Israel-Palestine issue, this book is it. I call it The One-Book Solution. |
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