What Is a Palestinian State Worth to the Palestinians?

Abstract

Nusseibeh proposes that Palestinians accept civil but not political rights in a Jewish state because, as he puts it, the state, as we had conceived it, is no longer practical or realistic . . . . [And] if we are facing an obstinate occupying power . . . we need to think of proposals that may work as shock therapy to awaken Israelis to the inhumanity of continued occupation, or that may provide halfway measures to reduce . . . the occupation’s deleterious effects on our daily lives. (pp. 10-11)1