Can There be a Resolution of the Conflict if Palestinian Citizens of Israel are not Involved?

Most literature on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict approaches it from the perspective of the two-state solution. However, Israel has constructed an undemocratic one-state reality spanning the entirety of Mandatory Palestine.* This confronts Israel and the Palestinians under its control with a quite different set of challenges and choices. The most fundamental of these for Israeli Jews is whether the one-state reality Israel has established is to be democratic or apartheid. At present it is not democratic, since millions of Palestinians have lived under Israeli military rule for five decades without civil or national rights. The expansion of Jewish settlements, the growing...