Solution 196–213: United States of Palestine-Israel is an anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region. With contributors based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Beirut and Jerusalem, New York and Bethlehem, Nazareth and Warsaw, the book offers solutions that will make life better, and proposes ways to do it. 
“Solution” is a tricky term especially in relation to the ongoing newspeak of the last two decades in Palestine-Israel. In their contributions for this book, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Eyal Weizman suggest revisiting the term “decolonization,” “in order to maintain a distance from the current political terms of a 'solution' to the Palestinian conflict and its respective borders. The one-, two- and now three-state solutions seem equally entrapped in a 'topdown' perspective, each with its own self-referential logic.”
Unlike previous books in the Solution series, this book invited several writers from the region to suggest specific and doable solutions for today. This is mainly since it seems absurd to present a one-man master plan for Palestine-Israel. In many senses, such master plans (whether they take a colonial, Zionist or other meta-narrative lead) have been the mold of the problem in the region for at least the last 150 years.
The idea is therefore to rethink the different antagonisms that structure our ways of resistance and compliance: to rethink Semitism and 1948, rethink identity and territory, rethink resistance and memory, rethink democracy and state, rethink Zionism and decolonization, rethink refugee and property, rethink religion and solution.
Solution Series edited by Ingo Niermann
Contributors Tal Adler/Osama Zatar, Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka, Maayan Amir/Ruti Sela, Ariella Azoulay, Yael Bartana/Sebastian Cichocki, Raji Bathish, Itzhak Benyamini, Sari Hanafi, Sandi Hilal/Alessandro Petti/Eyal Weizman, Yazan Khalili, Ohad Meromi/Joshua Simon, Norma Musih, Ingo Niermann, Noam Yuran

United States of Palestine-Israel (Solution)

Arts & Photography

Sandi Hilal

Eyal Weizman

Alessandro Petti

Joshua Simon

Itzhak Benyamini

History & Criticism

Sternber Pr

In the aftermath of World War II, two notorious Nazi villains were exposed in different ways. Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem in 1960, beginning the ''era of the witness'' in the prosecution of human rights abuses. Josef Mengele escaped Germany and lived out his life hidden in Argentina. After Mengele's death in 1985, his body was identified on an examining table in a morgue by a group of forensic scientists in Brazil. This book, based on a presentation by the authors, explores the emergence of the object in human rights, the conditions of its presentation, and the aesthetic operations involved in deciphering the ''speech of things.''

Mengele's Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics

Thomas Keenan

Sternberg Press

An exhibition and book about space, politics, and power, Territories provides Israeli architects, critics, filmmakers and artists with an open platform. Aiming to formulate a multi-layered critique by means of territorial research, Territories attempts to compare the specificities of this process in Israel to diverse areas around the world. With texts and interviews by Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal, W.J.T. Mitchell, Matthew Buckingham and others.

Territories: Islands, Camps And Other States Of Utopia

Franke, Anselm

Individual Artists

Walther König, Köln

Arendt’den Gazze’ye Ehvenişer Siyaseti İnsancıl Şiddetin Kısa Tarihi

Acilim Kitap

Spaziocidio. Israele e l'architettura come strumento di controllo

Mondadori

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