Neumann favors an eventual one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, preceded for practical reasons by a two-state solution.[11] In 2011, however, Neumann said that he no longer found the one-state option viable at all; while he had still thought it was the best idea for the future of Palestine, he bluntly said that there would never be circumstances where it would either be accepted by Israel or forced into reality by Palestinians and their allies.