God bless the efforts of all those trying but Israel wants nothing but total genocide of everything Palestine so this is sadly just a pipe dream – Peter
The expected recognition of a Palestine state by France, the UK, Australia and several other Western countries is part of an effort to breathe life into a dying solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two states living side by side.
On the ground, the two-state solution is more remote than ever. Trust between the two peoples of the Holy Land is plumbing historic depths, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza – by far the deadliest round of war in the century-old conflict – escalates once more.
Polls, which in the 1990s and early 2000s consistently indicated majority support on both sides for two states, have in recent years shown only a minority of Israelis and Palestinians support the idea – or think it is feasible in practice.
Politicians who advocate peace through partitioning the land have lost clout on both sides of the conflict. Few Israelis or Palestinians think international announcements will do much to change that trajectory.
“I think it died a long time ago,” Diana Buttu, a former Palestinian peace negotiator, said of the two-state idea. “I think it died with the fact that there was never political will to see it come to fruition.”
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