ISRAEL-PALESTINE: IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE CONFLICT?

Olivier Roy,professor at the Istituto universitario europeo di Firenze, scientific advisor of Middle East Directions, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Joseph Weiler, University Professor, NYU Law School and Senior Fellow Center for European studies, Harvard. Introduced by Bernhard Scholz, President of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples ETS Foundation

The two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now seems like an illusion out of step with history, and creative political arrangements for a framework that makes coexistence possible are multiplying. But the hypothesis that seems to have been overtaken by history still deserves to be taken seriously.