Reza AslanThat’s just one of the stinging observations offered Thursday by author and religious scholar Reza Aslan during a presentation at Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus.
“There is no peace process. There is no two-state solution. It’s over,” Aslan said.
Half a million Israelis now live in what was supposed to be Palestinian land. “There is no Palestine. There’s not going to be a Palestine,” he said.
The world is going to have to adjust to the idea of a single state for two peoples, something nobody wants. Models for a bi-national state exist: Belgium and Northern Ireland, for example.
Born in Iran, Aslan is the author of “No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.”
He’s a contributing editor at the Daily Beast. He has degrees in religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a master of fine arts from the University of Iowa.
He is also the author of "How to Win a Cosmic War" (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age), and editor of the just published anthology from Norton titled Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.Continued
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