The ‘two-state solution’ assumes a State of Palestine is possible — but is it?

Anyone who wants to be regarded as in the mainstream of the Middle East debate at the moment has to declare solemn support for the “two-state solution” to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It is taken to mean a settlement which would see the State of Israel, admitted to the United Nations in May 1949, exist alongside a State of Palestine, currently a “non-member observer state” at the U.N. But a huge question mark hangs over what that Palestinian state would look like.

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