Israel's demographic time bomb

Israel's "demographic time bomb"

A single state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be Israel's greatest fear. Why? Because demographic changes over the coming decades would render Jews as a distinct minority within its borders.

Update: Tony Judt actually calls for a single state solution in this week's NYRB. "The time has come to think the unthinkable," he writes. "The two-state solution— the core of the Oslo process and the present 'road map'—is probably already doomed. With every passing year we are postponing an inevitable, harder choice that only the far right and far left have so far acknowledged, each for its own reasons. The true alternative facing the Middle East in coming years will be between an ethnically cleansed Greater Israel and a single, integrated, binational state of Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians."