Palestinians in Israel and Binationalism: Escape from the Impasse

As’ad Ghanem The last decade of the twentieth century and early years of the current century have witnessed a shift in the search of Palestinians in Israel for solutions to their status: this search has shifted from a concentration on the Israeli internal domain to the wider Palestinian sphere, including those outside Israel and the West Bank (i. e. the refugees and the broader Diaspora) . The period of this shift divides into two stages. The first stage lasted through the mid-1990s and was a continuation of the years that followed the cancellation of Israeli military rule over its Palestinian population and its 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In this stage, Israel allowed for the introduction of some measures of democratisation and liberalisation into the life of the Palestinians in Israel. Until the mid-1990s, there was a growing belief among the Palestinians in Israel for the...