A two-state solution will have to be an essential part of any post-war talks
Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrives to address a press conference in The Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 October 2023.When Israeli papers this week published details of a government “concept paper” suggesting that the 2.3 million Gaza population should be evicted from the territory into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to live there as refugees, the response was outrage.
As tanks roll in to Gaza City and the terrible Palestinian death toll reaches over 9,000, even Israel’s closest allies, privately and publicly counselling proportionality in its use of its overwhelming force, are asking what its intentions are beyond the annihilation of Hamas? On which a resounding silence from Netanyahu.
“There has to be a vision of what comes next,” Joe Biden rightly insisted last week. “In our view, it has to be a two-state solution.” This weekend his secretary of state Antony Blinken returns to Israel to ask precisely such questions.
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