REVIEW ARTICLE: Israel–Palestine, Federation or Apartheid?
From The Philosopher CXII No. 2 Autumn 2024 A section of wall dividing Jewish and Palestinian areas in the West Bank Deconstructing the Zionist Myth Review article by Paula Stanyer. S hlomo Sand is clear eyed about the current situation in Israel. And in Israel–Palestine: Federation or Apartheid? he seeks to challenge those who offer solutions based on two separate states, believing this to be both unrealistic and at odds with events in Israel since the 1967 war. Instead, he sees Israel already as a binational state, only one in which one people completely dominate the other. Whilst he says that the situation is not exactly identical to that of apartheid South Africa between 1948 and 1992, he thinks that it is, in principle, very similar not least because it is based on the complete separation between two human groups that live side by side. For Sand, the day to day reality in the West Bank recalls, broadly, other colonial situations of...