By Lara Friedman
The steady march of settlements, the rightward shift in Israeli politics, the growing sense that a conflict-ending peace agreement is impossible — all these things are feeding some pundits’ impulse to declare the death of the two-state solution as a means of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Read More
By Bernard Avishai
Is the two-state solution passé? Serious people, with democratic instincts, are asking this now, but it is hard to think of a more frivolous question.
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By Zalman Shoval, Yossi Alpher, Steven J. Rosen, Scott B. Lasensky, David Makovsky and Amjad Atallah
How can prospects for a two-state solution be advanced? Yossi Alpher, Amjad Atallah, Scott Lasensky, David Makovsky, Steven Rosen and Zalman Shoval weigh in.
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By Nathan Jeffay
Whenever he is asked about prospects for a two-state solution, Moshe Elad, who was the first head of Israeli-Palestinian security coordination after the Oslo Accords, answers with a question of his own: “In the West, people see removing settlements as the most effective way of moving things forward. But say we reach a point where settlements are removed. Where the hell do we go from there?”
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By Daniel S. Mariaschin
There may be one point in the Middle East conflict on which we can all agree: It’s complicated.Read More
By Ehud Yaari
More than 16 years after the euphoria of the Oslo Accords, the Israelis and the Palestinians have still not reached a final-status peace agreement. The diplomatic stalemate discredits moderates and plays into the hands of extremists on both sides who refuse to make the concessions that any viable peace treaty will require.
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By Nathan Jeffay
As the Obama administration struggles to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, a two-state solution remains the final goal, supported by governments in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Washington and Moscow. It enjoys at least lip service from everyone from Benjamin Netanyahu on the right to Noam Chomsky on the left.
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