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An Israeli-Palestinian Confederation: The Only Plausible Two-State Solution: A Discussion with Bernard Avishai

September 28th, 2021 at 7:00 PM

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This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series.

Has the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict become an impossibility? Is a “new-state” solution all that is left?

Bernard Avishai has written that “a two-state solution can be preempted by catastrophe, inertia, demagogy, venal leaders, weak leaders — or it can be pushed off to another generation. But it cannot just be ‘over.’”

Rather, it has to be rethought.

Join us for a fascinating discussion with Bernard Avishai, a faculty member at Dartmouth College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Harper’s and other venues.

This program is sponsored by the Gary R. Gerson Lecture Series, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida

Speaker

Bernard Avishai is a visiting professor of government at Dartmouth College and Adjunct Professor of Political Economy at the Hebrew University. He has taught at MIT and Duke. A Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of The Tragedy of ZionismA New IsraelThe Hebrew Republic, and Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.

He contributes regularly on political economy and Israeli affairs to The New Yorker and has written dozens of articles for Harper’sThe New York ReviewThe Nation, and New York Times Magazine. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG.