Author: Hassina Mechaï

Shlomo Sand, an academic from Tel Aviv University, shares his thoughts on the history of Zionism in his latest work titled Two Peoples for One State? Rereading the History of Zionism. He believes that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine necessitates a political organization of the two peoples in a federation or confederation to avoid further disasters like the recent events in Gaza. Expressing his voluntarist pessimism, Sand asserts that a Jewish state alone cannot survive in the Middle East and emphasizes the need for a binational state for Jews and Palestinians to coexist. Through his research, Sand delves…