Since the start of the second Palestinian Intifada in September 2000 there has been a resurgence of interest in a one-state bi-national model for solving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The idea is achieving increasing popularity among people on the liberal left who had previously supported a two-state solution, and it has found new endorsement among both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Tony Judt's advocacy of bi-nationalism in "Israel: The Alternative" (New York Review of Books, October 23, 2003) generated intense controversy in Jewish and Israeli circles. Several weeks prior to the appearance of Judt's piece, Ahmad Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a long time proponent of two states, published "A One-State Solution" (The Guardian, September 29, 2003) in which he anticipated many of Judt's arguments. It is odd that Khalidi and Judt have chosen a point in this long and brutal conflict when the violence and mutual bitterness are par...

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