6 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Farewell to the ‘Two-State Solution' Delusion
A 'two-state solution' is an oxymoron. The Palestinians, who hold the world record for rejecting such proposals since the 1930s, clearly oppose it. Since the massacres of Oct. 7, 2023, the majority of Israelis view a Palestinian state as a dangerous reward for terror. Nobody knows what that state would look like, who would run it or whether it would be democratic and peaceful or Islamic and jihadist. Nobody can adduce evidence that the Palestinians are capable of maintaining a nation-state.
Yet these facts haven't prevented generations of world leaders, scholars and commentators from insisting that the two-state solution isn't merely implementable but the only path to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
