A Land for All (organization)

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A Land for All (Arabic : بلاد للجميع, Hebrew : ארץ לכולם; previously known as Two States, One Homeland) [1] is an Israeli-Palestinian movement comprising Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinians, which proposes a two-state confederation as the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This solution promotes the existence of two sovereign states in the Israeli and Palestinian territories, based on shared principles of equality, freedom and dignity. [2]

The movement was founded under a joint Israeli-Palestinian leadership in 2012. Its co-CEOs are Israeli Jew May Pundak, daughter of Ron Pundak, [3] and Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dr. Rula Hardal. [4] The movement was born out of a series of meetings between Meron Rappaport, an Israeli journalist, and Awni Al-Mahshni, a Palestinian activist. Palestinian and Israeli journalists, scholars and activists gradually joined these meetings to formulate a statement of shared principles for coexistence. [2] [5]

The movement is a member of Alliance for Middle East Peace, and won the Outstanding Peace Support Award Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2021. [6] [7]

Proposal

Under A Land for All's proposal, Israel/Palestine would be a singular territorial unit, with two states (under the pre-1967 Green Line borders) forming a confederation. [7] [8] [9] The movement's proposal is part of a larger shift towards promoting a partnership between Israelis and Palestinians, rather than a strict separation. [8] The movement's key principles address many of the existing sources of tension in the long-standing conflict and provide guidelines for resolving them:

References

  1. Rudner, Ofra (3 October 2023). "'Separating Jews and Palestinians Cannot Work': Planning a Binational Confederation". Haaretz. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ארץ לכולם - A Land For All - دولتان، وطن واحد". 18 April 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Landler, Mark (16 November 2023). "Five Miles and a World Apart, Younger Activists Dream of a New Peace Process". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  4. "Rula Hardal: Life as a Palestinian Citizen of Israel". Babel: Translating the Middle East (Podcast). Center for Strategic & International Studies. 28 November 2023.
  5. Ron, Ariel (17 November 2023). "A Land for All". The American Prospect. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  6. "A Land for All - Two States, One Homeland - 2021 Outstanding Peace Support". Luxembourg Peace Prize. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Haegi, Moritz. "A land for all? A glimpse into a shared future". blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  8. 1 2 Shemer-Kunz, Yoav (2023). "Annexation, normalization and the two-state solution in Israel-Palestine". Frontiers in Political Science. 5. doi: 10.3389/fpos.2023.981237 . ISSN   2673-3145.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Rudoren, Jodi (3 June 2022). "It's time to talk seriously about a Confederation of Israel and Palestine". The Forward. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  10. "A Land For All | ארץ לכולם". 19 April 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  11. "Shared and Agreed Founding Principles". A Land for All. Summer 2014.
  12. Beinart, Peter (7 July 2020). "Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  13. Konrad, Edo (3 May 2021). "Is Israeli-Palestinian confederation all it's hyped up to be?". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 19 October 2023.