The Left in Israel has been decimated. Some believe that the only chance for meaningful opposition is for the Left to drop the doctrine that Zionism requires a Jewish State. The Zionist Left, so this argument goes, should abandon the two-state solution in favour of a federal arrangement with Palestine. A discussion.
Shimon Stein
is a retired Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2007. Currently a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at the Tel Aviv University (INSS).