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Source: https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-870625
Origins of the Two-State Solution
(Jerusalem Post) Amb. Alan Baker interviewed by Ruth Marks Eglash - The "two-state solution" currently being discussed originated in a speech by then-U.S. President George W. Bush on June 24, 2002. It was not mentioned in the agreements that constitute the backbone of today's Middle East peace process, such as UN Security Council Resolution 242 following the Six-Day War in 1967 or Resolution 338 in 1973 after the Yom Kippur War. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's vision of the permanent status, set out in his last speech to the Knesset in October 1995, referred to the establishment of "a Palestinian entity" that would be "less than a state and will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority." It was referenced in the 2003 Quartet "Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." There was absolutely no reference to a two-state solution in the Oslo Accords. A Palestinian state will only emanate from direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel (as agreed in the Oslo Accords); will be demilitarized and limited in its military capabilities; and the border between it and Israel will be the result of negotiation between them, and will not necessarily be the 1967 lines. Any such state must prevent terror and incitement. Since the Palestinian Authority has never been able to develop any practical plan for governance, the two-state plan has never been given any concrete content. In the present circumstances of open and violent schism within the Palestinian leadership between Fatah and Hamas, there is little possibility of reaching any viable solution. The writer, former Legal Adviser and Deputy Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is Director of the Institute for Diplomatic Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.