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The March of Return Negates a Two-State Solution

(Wall Street Journal) Yossi Klein Halevi - In the recent clashes on the Gaza-Israel border, what has been missed by most observers is the rare clarifying moment that this confrontation has offered: The March of Return is an explicit negation of a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza coexisting beside Israel. If Palestinians living in Gaza under Hamas rule still see themselves as refugees intent on "returning" to the Jewish state, then the only concession that can satisfy their aspirations is Israel's national suicide. The real message of the protests is that the conflict is not about undoing the consequences of 1967, when the West Bank and Gaza came under Israeli rule in the Six-Day War, but about overturning 1948 - when Israel was born. As Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh put it, the attempt to breach the border is the beginning of the return to "all of Palestine." The goal is the creation of a Palestinian state erasing Israel. The writer is a senior fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
2018-04-20 00:00:00
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