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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19297/netanyahu-moderate
The "Two-State Solution": An Exercise in Diplomatic Wild Goose-Chasing
(Gatestone Institute) Amir Taheri - After decades, some genius pretended to have discovered the "two-state solution" to the "Palestinian issue." That "solution" had been offered by the UN and accepted by the Jews under David Ben-Gurion in 1947, but rejected by neighboring Arab states. Its revival by Western powers, notably the U.S., was an exercise in diplomatic wild goose-chasing. For decades now, almost everyone has paid lip service to that "solution" or even imagined "roadmaps" towards achieving it, without wondering whether the Israelis and the Palestinians actually want it. The fact is that repeated opinion polls and elections show that a majority of Israelis and Palestinians do not want the "two-state solution." The writer was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.