Prospects of Palestine state bleak
Two-state solution has been overcome by the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
Two-state solution has been overcome by the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
With Israel's campaign against Hamas raging, the United States has renewed calls to work toward a Palestinian state, but few expect success now after decades of failure.
US President Joe Biden's administration, which has faced heated criticism in the Arab world for supporting Israel's retaliation over a 7 October Hamas terrorists attack that largely targeted civilians, has in recent days subtly changed tone by emphasizing the need to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.
Speaking Friday on his latest trip to Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for "humanitarian pauses" to let in assistance and said that longer term a two-state solution was "the best viable path — indeed, the only path."
"That's the only guarantor of a secure, Jewish, and democratic Israel; the only guarantor of Palestinians realizing their legitimate right to live in a state of their own, enjoying equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity and dignity; the only way to end a cycle of violence once and for all," Blinken said in Tel Aviv.
But a two-state solution was blessed almost exactly 30 years earlier by the Oslo Accords and has not come to fruition, with the Palestinian Authority enjoying only limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank, and the US not leading a concerted diplomatic effort to the goal since John Kerry's efforts a decade ago.
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a veteran opponent of a Palestinian state and leads the country's most right-wing government ever, filled with staunch backers of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority that administers the territory in turn has been increasingly weakened, and has not controled Gaza since 2007 when Islamist militants Hamas took over.
Even before the 7 October attack, the deadliest in Israel's history, support was slipping on both sides for a Palestinian state.
A survey taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Center found that just 35 percent of Israelis thought their country could coexist peacefully with an independent Palestinian state, down from 50 percent 10 years ago, with polls showing a similar drop among Palestinians.
WITH AFP
