Binationalist

This was evident in their rejection of binationalist proposals and by their insistence that Jewish immigration be so curbed that an Arab majority in the country would be guaranteed in perpetuity.

Moreover Tamari says, the binationalist alternative involves giving up the struggle for military withdrawal from the occupied territories and the dismantling of colonial settlements.

Another Zionist leader, Berl Katznelson, likewise had no illusions that the opposition between Zionist and Palestinian aims could be surmounted. And binationalists like Martin Buber, Judah Magnes and Hannah Arendt were fully aware of what the clash would be like, if it came to fruition, as of course it did.