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Farewell to the "Two-State Solution" Delusion
(Wall Street Journal) Amb. Michael Oren - 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 whether that state 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. The victims of this delusion have been the Palestinians. To date, no Palestinian leader has ever abandoned the demand for repatriating millions of Palestinian refugees to Israel. None have recognized the existence of the Jewish people indigenous to the Land of Israel or acknowledged the legitimacy of the Jewish state. The writer was Israel's ambassador to the U.S., 2009-13.