Demographic and Political Transformations in Israel and Palestine: Prospects for a Negotiated Peace
Kirsch, Noah
2015
- In this paper, I examine contemporary political and demographic trends within Israel and the Palestinian territories. Through that research, I reach three ultimate conclusions. First, the collective growth of the Israeli populace (particularly within Arab and ultra-Orthodox Jewish factions) will create significant economic challenges for the state and will disrupt existing social dynamics. Thus, ... read moreonce demographic phenomena manifest, in the next twenty to thirty years, a negotiated peace will be infeasible. Second, the current governmental contexts within Israel (in the wake of new parliamentary elections) and Palestine (following the unification of Hamas and Fatah) make peace a theoretical possibility, but one that would require tremendous political sacrifice. Finally, given this insight, on a practical level, I argue that no current peace proposals are logistically viable, and that Israel and Palestine will likely evolve into a de facto singular state in the next several decades.read less
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