Last updated on:
9/21/2015 |
Author: ProCon.org
Tony Judt, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“What if there were no place in the world today for a ‘Jewish state?’ What if the binational solution were not just increasingly likely, but actually a desirable outcome? It is not such a very odd thought. Most of the readers of this essay live in pluralist states which have long since become multiethnic and multicultural…
A binational state in the Middle East would require the emergence, among Jews and Arabs alike, of a new political class. The very idea is an unpromising mix of realism and utopia, hardly an auspicious place to begin. But the alternatives are far, far worse.”
“Israel: The Alternative,” New York Review of Books, Oct. 23, 2003
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University
- Research and Teaching Interests, Modern European History, French History and The History of Ideas
- Director, Remarque Institute
- Education:
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- PhD, Cambridge University, 1972
- Other:
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- None found