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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3479147.ece
Violence in Gaza Calls into Question Plans for a Palestinian State
[Times-UK] Editorial - There could hardly be a worse moment for Condoleezza Rice to arrive in the Middle East to drive forward peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The basis for the U.S.-backed peace plan is falling apart. The two-state solution now looks scarcely viable. A single Palestinian state comprising Gaza and the West Bank was always dubious, given the geographic separation. It now looks stillborn: Israel has no negotiating partner in Gaza and the enmity between Hamas and the Fatah-led PA in the West Bank is such that Abbas has privately urged Israel not to contemplate such a move.