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As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his controversial book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace. The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity-- their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition. A geographer and historian by training, Benvenisti conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in any negotiations

The author presents a conceptual framework of an internally generated, endemic civil war that should replace the old paradigm of viewing the Israeli-Arab conflict as an interstate, externally generated dispute. The communities engaged in the strife must realize themselves that the continued struggle will bring a plague on both their houses, that nobody emerges triumphant from a communal strife, and that one community cannot thrive forever on the misery of another. (DÜI-Hns)

Benvenisti, Meron: The West Bank data project : a survey of Israel's policy. - Washington/D.C. (u.a.) : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1984

Benvenisti, ehemaliger Zweiter Bürgermeister von Jerusalem, stellt die aktuelle Situation in der Stadt und die Lösungsperspektiven des Jerusalemproblems in den Kontext der dreitausendjährigen Stadtgeschichte, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem 20. Jh. liegt. Er behandelt u.a. Fragen der geographischen Abgrenzung, die politische Geschichte Jerusalems, das Spannungsverhältnis von Demokratie und Demographie in einer geteilten Stadt sowie die Problematik der politisch statt städteplanerisch begründeten Stadtentwicklung. Benvenisti glaubt nicht, dass der Jerusalemkonflikt durch ein Souveränitätsreglement - gleich welcher Art - zu lösen ist; die Lösung muss sich auf der Basis einer vertrauensvollen Zusammenarbeit nach und nach entwickeln: "the process is the solution". (DÜI-Hns)