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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/22/armchair-historians-offer-nothing-on-israel-palestine/
The Palestinians Have Sadly Turned Down the Two-State Solution Many Times
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - The Palestinians have sadly turned down the two-state solution in favor of bloodshed many times. Wouldn't life be easier if the Palestinians hadn't sided with the Nazis during the war; if they hadn't rejected a state of their own in favor of war with Israel in 1948; if they hadn't blown up the Oslo Accords in the Nineties; if they hadn't walked away from the Clinton deal at Camp David in 2000; if they hadn't snubbed the Ehud Olmert plan, which accommodated their demands, in 2008; if they hadn't turned Gaza into a terror enclave after Israel pulled out in 2005; if they hadn't embarked upon an orgy of butchery, rape, mutilation and kidnap on Oct. 7? The Arabs do not reject the State of Israel because of a dispute over borders or "occupation." They snubbed a state of their own before a single Israeli boot trod upon "occupied land." As a matter of honor, they cannot accept a state alongside Israel; they can only accept one that replaces it. Israel has already tried the two-state solution to destruction. Now it is supposed to try it again? Israel has only one option: to dig in and show that its enemies will never win. Without such deterrence, it is done for.