There are strong doubts among Muslim populations over whether Israel and a Palestinian state can coexist in a way that meets the Palestinians' needs.

Mailer's novel has as its running theme the notion of 'Alpha' and 'Omega'- two states of mind coexisting in the same person.

These two states coexisted uneasily, but were quite stable.

In Butoh, mutually exclusive states often coexist.

In France, however, a professional-bureaucratic state coexisted with national markets and capitalist private property.

The push toward peace began when Egypt showed in 1978 that an Arab state could coexist in peace with Israel.

Until then, all the possible states of the particle coexisted, like overlapping waves, in a condition known as quantum superposition.

( All three states coexist)

The term is applied to the triple point of a chemical substance, at which the solid, liquid and gaseous states can coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

The same year, President Hussein softened his hard-line stance against Israel under French pressure, saying he believed "an eventual Palestinian state and Israel could coexist."