Israel's open rejection of a 'two-state solution' undermines US Middle East policy
Israel's open rejection of a 'two-state solution' undermines US Middle East policy
There is no longer any pretence. Israel is no longer dancing around the idea of two states. It isn't going to happen - that is their policy.
Israel is the middle eastern equivalent of Trump's "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave" statement.
The US is so wrapped around their finger our "middle east policy" is simply "don't let Israel fall"There is not 2 state solution with Netanyahu and there is no 2 state solution with Hamas. Both need to lose power first.
Oh, Netenyahu's saying it openly now?
I suppose that's a change to not being open about it in English, but being open about it in Israeli/Hebrew media.
It was the ambassador who said it openly in English. There's some debate as to whether that indicates her inability to keep it quiet when flustered or an increased confidence on the part of the Israeli government that they can do whatever they want without consequence.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Her insistence that there will be no Palestinian state and that Israel believes there is no prospect of a two-state solution represent a stark, bold, brazen admission.
America's backing for Israel's military offensive, which has now killed more than 18,000 Gazans, is predicated on the policy of two states at some point after.
Yet it's clear now that America is backing Israel militarily, with US weapons and funding, despite two starkly different end point objectives.
The ambassador's remarks now put Israel in open defiance of every American president's policy going back 40 years.
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The facts on the ground have been shifting for decades and have accelerated in recent years, under the latest iteration of Netanyahu's government, with illegal Jewish settlements expanding rapidly in the occupied West Bank.
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