The Life and Death of the “Two-State Solution”

“The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”— President John F. Kennedy, Yale University, 1962For decades, the world has been told a “Two-State Solution” is coming. It never has. Why?This landmark book answers that question through an unprecedented collaboration: Mark Bruzonsky, American Jewish journalist and special political consultant who has met personally with Arab and Israeli heads of state across more than 200 international trips to over 50 countries, and Hisham Ahmed, Palestinian refugee born destitute and blind in a refugee camp who rose to become Chairman of the Political Science Department at St. Mary’s College in California — two men on opposite sides of history, writing the same book.Spanning from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through 1948, 1967, Oslo, Camp David, and the present day, this book traces how the idea of two states was born, who shaped it, who distorted it, and whether it can ever be revived.Inside, you will understand:Why the United States has championed the Two-State Solution for 50+ years and never delivered itWhy so many Jews and Zionists now support two states while many Palestinians have turned against itWhat the “Peace Process” really was — and what it was designed to preventHow the idea of two states first emerged in a land known to the world as PalestineWhat a genuine, lasting solution would actually requireEssential reading for anyone trying to understand the most consequential territorial dispute of the modern era — told by two men who lived it from both sides. Read more