Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword: Two States on One Land--Parallel States as an Option for Israel and Palestine Alvaro de Soto Preface Mathias Mossberg and Mark LeVine 1. One Land--Two States? An Introduction to the Parallel States Concept Mathias Mossberg 2. Can Sovereignty Be Divided? Jens Bartelson 3. Parallel Sovereignty: Dividing and Sharing Core State Functions Peter Wallensteen 4. Security Strategy for the Parallel States Project: An Israeli Perspective Nimrod Hurvitz and Dror Zeevi 5. Palestinian National Security Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi 6. An Israel-Palestine Parallel States Economy by 235 Raja Khalidi 7. Economic Considerations in Implementing a Parallel States Structure Raphael Bar-El 8. Parallel Sovereignty in Practice: Judicial Dimensions of a Parallel States Structure Various authors, compiled by Mathias Mossberg 9. Religion in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: From Obstacle to Peace to Force for Reconciliation? Mark LeVine and Liam O'Mara IV 10. The Necessity for Thinking outside the Box Hiba Husseini 11. Parallel Lives, Parallel States: Imagining a Different Future Eyal Megged Contributors Index

About the Author

Mark LeVine is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, a contributing editor for Tikkun, and a senior columnist for Al Jazeera. He is the author of Overthrowing Geography and the coeditor of Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel (both from UC Press). Mathias Mossberg is a retired Swedish ambassador with extensive personal experience from the peace process and related track-two diplomacy as well as from mediation efforts in other conflicts. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Reviews

"A coterie of bold, open-minded international academics offers a fresh paradigm for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence... A visionary approach so daring that it could actually work." Kirkus "In an effort to circumvent a seemingly bleak future, a group of Israeli and Palestinian scholars is proposing and examining an interesting and provocative paradigm shift ... these essayists provide some interesting and refreshing ideas." -- Jay Freeman Booklist "The idea merits further exploration." Publishers Weekly "A perceptual and cognitive turnaround aimed at formulating a solution to the situation. And it may well be that this is precisely what it takes to get out of the impasse the diplomatic process has reached." -- Arad Nir Al-Monitor "A provocative and daring new approach to peacefully meeting the national rights of Israelis and Palestinians." -- Rami G. Khouri Agence Global "It is evident that the editors put considerable thought into seeking a fine balance between Israeli and Palestinian scholars-and this is done quite artfully." Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs "Throughout the book, Levine, and Mossberg investigate every aspect of of the idea of "Parallel States." They analyze a new coexistence of Israel and Palestine at all levels: economic, religious, judicial; and how it would prevent the emergence of tensions between the communities." -- Joan Catala Margarit afkar/ideas "[One land, two states] stimulates new thinking towards resolving the Israel- Palestine conflict." -- Muhammad Yaseen Gada Intellectual Discourse