Sunday 7 April 2024

After six months of war the two-state solution for Israel/Palestine is dead

Binyamin Netanyahu is not a leader who likes to compromise. He states his political/military objective and then goes for it, whatever the consequences. Thus, the Israeli military have fought Hamas in Gaza for six months and there is no hint of compromise, let alone back-tracking. The Israeli prime minister wants/needs to destroy Hamas as an organisation and he will continue fighting until the job is done. And because of that determination, the chance of there ever being a two-state solution under which the Palestinians would be given a chunk of territory to call their own, including the West Bank, is dead and buried. It's never going to happen, not under Netanyahu's leadership. Never, never, never. Whether it might happen under a new Israeli leader is another issue but after what has happened in the last six months, I don't see any would-be prime minister in Israel risking going for the two-state solution which is the only proposal on the table pushed by the US. There is too much hatred, too many deaths, too much suffering, too much destruction for any agreement between Israel and Palestine to forge a peace deal in which the Palestinians will be granted sovereignty over land which Israel believes it has a right to keep for its own citizens. So the future is grim. The war will go on and on, Israel will fail to kill every member of Hamas, Gaza will almost cease to exist and, if anything, Israel will grab more territory and certanly won't hand over any real estate to the Palestinians. However hard the US pushes Netanyahu, he is not going to budge. Not on this issue.

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