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Optimist’s despair

Professor Asher Susser's new book explains why a two-state solution is in everyone’s best interests.

Optimist’s despair
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If anyt hing was needed to confirm that Israelis are wise to relegate their long-running dispute with the Palestinians to a poor third in their list of concerns, behind the Iranian nuclear threat and social justice, this book is it.

Professor Asher Susser, former director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University and still a senior fellow there, directs his fire and ire against the fashion in some academic quarters to have Israelis and Palestinians coexist in a single state. He has no trouble in demolishing their case, showing how both peoples, as well as the Jordanians, regard a two-state solution as being in their essential interests.

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