Examines the impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict and the reasons for the breakdown of attempts to establish a meaningful Palestinian state. Explores the organizational steps, on local and international levels, that would enable the construction of a bi-national state.

Introduction : the failure of the two-state solution and delimiting the one-state idea / Hani A. Faris -- Is the two-state settlement feasible? The deeper politics of Jewish settlements / Virginia Tilley ; A racialised space : the future of Jerusalem / Saree Makdisi ; Building a Palestinian state under occupation : reassessing the Oslo process / Husam Said Zomlot ; Is the two-state settlement still viable? : an overall assessment of the present situation / Naseer H. Aruri ; Israel's war on Gaza : Zionism's Pyrrhic victory? / Nancy Murray -- Ideologies and the idea of a historic settlement. Deconstructing the Zionist settler narrative and constructing an alternative / Gabriel Piterberg ; In the golden age of Constantinian Judaism : the future of the indigenous Jewish prophetic : Israel, ethnic particularism and universalist values / Marc H. Ellis ; Challenging the consunsus favouring the two-state model / Ali Abunimah ; A blueprint for a one-state movement : a troubled history / Ilan Pappé -- Practicalities in the search for a resolution of the conflict. The rights of Palestinian refugees and territorial solutions in historic Palestine / Susan M. Akram ; The geographic and demographic imperatives of a single state / Salman H. Abu Sitta ; Mizrahi feminism and the question of Palestine : two states or one? ? Smadar Lavie -- Mobilising for a solution. Mobilising Palestinians in support of one state / George E. Bisharat ; Mobilising Israel and the world Jewry for the one-state solution / Norton Mezvinsky ; Palestinians in Israel and binationalism : escape from the impasse / Asʼad Ghanem ; Reversing defeat trhough non-violent power / Nadia Hijab ; Building movements for the one-state solution in Palestine and the Arab world / Leila Farsakh ; Awakening the American conscience about Israel/Palestine / Joel Kovel ; Building an international movement to promote the one-state solution / Ghada Karmi.