Bernard Spiegal

The two-state solution is dead, notwithstanding that various governments, the EU, the Palestinian Authority, along with sundry organisations, Jewish and not, tenaciously cling to what was always an ill-conceived, unjust idea.

For many, the reasons for now proclaiming the ‘solution’ dead beyond the possibility of resurrection, tend to focus on what might be characterised as technical reasons. Thus, it is now deemed impractical to think that a Palestinian state running alongside Israel could in any sense be viable given that, for example:

• the massive expansion of settlements that have consumed huge swathes of West Bank land that was notionally allocated to a Palestinian state;
• the number of Jewish Settlers, implanted like a malign virus into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, now around 750,000;
• the corralling of Palestinians into the non-contiguous, essentially bounded areas labelled ‘A’ and ‘B’ utterly surrounded by the Israel-controlled Area C, land that the Jewish state lusts after and is well on the way to consuming;
• the unrelenting, virtually daily demolitions of Palestinian villages, their homes and livelihoods.

More reasons could be adduced and added to the above list for determining that ‘two-states’ is no longer a viable option. But I need not do that here, the point is sufficiently made above and if more material is required here is a good starting point to find out more. But these ‘practical’ reasons are not my focus.

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