Some recent press comment on Binyamin Netanyahu and the two-state solution:
I have no doubt that he deeply dislikes the concept of a Palestinian state...
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When President Obama meets Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday, who will blink first? The President, who is insisting that Israel accept the plan for a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians? Or the new Israeli Prime Minister, who recoils from that notion?
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Journalists will do their best to prise the words "two-state solution" from Bibi's lips, given that he has still not committed to it.
The long and the short of this is that there is no way that Israel can oppose the two-state solution. As a matter of diplomacy or of purely temporary relations of power it of course can do that. But in a more important sense it cannot. Morally, Israel's right to exist is founded on the principle of national self-determination, and its right under that principle was denied to it from the word go by its Arab neighbours, and is still denied to it by one of the country's putative Palestinian interlocutors, Hamas. For Israel to insist on its own right, and the right of the Jewish people, to national self-determination but simultaneously deny the same right to the Palestinians would be an act of the gravest folly. It is one thing to say that a comprehensive peace settlement requires renunciation by the Palestinians of terrorism against the people of Israel, a recognition by all relevant parties of Israel's existence, a resolution of the issue of Palestinian refugees by other means than their resettlement within the boundaries of Israel (as agreed in that peace deal), and cast-iron international guarantees against future aggression based on backsliding from these commitments. OK, it's four things. But for Netanyahu to block the road to a two-state solution is to act against the very interests he purports to represent, and if he decides to do that, all those, Jews and others, who support Israel should repudiate his stance.