Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three? (Part 1)

Speaker: Dr. Asher Susser Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University; Senior Visiting Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University Title: The Third Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture: "Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three?" - Part 1 (YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series) Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: April 22, 2010 Description: Dr. Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed to materialize. He provides an in-depth analysis of Jordan’s positions and presents an updated discussion of the two-state imperative through the initiatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Susser argues that Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians have cohesive collective identities that violently collide with each other. As a result of these entrenched differences, a single-state solution cannot be achieved.