Book Review: Two Nations Into One Don’t Go

By Philip Mendes, Ph.D.

One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict by Benny Morris, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, 240 pp., $26 (hardcover).

Morris’s overview of Palestinian history and politics is very black and white, and rejects the possibility of more nuanced interpretations.

He argues convincingly that the common fear and hatred of the two peoples makes a bi-national state unthinkable.

Morris ... favors a two-state solution, but is extremely pessimistic about its chances for success.