I have met many Palestinians over the years and I have never met one that would ever agree to a two state solution. They have rejected one at every turn. Their mantra “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” even reinforces it. Their idea of a free Palestine is for Israel to cease to exist. The bad blood goes both ways. If Palestine would accept current borders and agree to never attack Israel, this would all end but that’s not enough. They truly believe that this is the land of their ancestors and it is willed by God to be their land and only they should occupy it. Let’s ignore the entire history of the region and the world for that matter. Land changes hands and borders change. Just ask just about any Palestinian what borders they would accept for a two state solution. There have been bad actors on both sides of this and neither is innocent but what it all boils down to is what exactly Palestine wants and so far I have never heard of a solution on their part other than from the river to the sea mantra. They are unwilling to compromise even from a position of severe weakness. They have and always will try to drum up sympathy from outsiders citing bogus claims of genocide and persecution. They attack first and then play the victim. This crap has been going on for decades.
There's no easy solution to this. But there's also never been an acceptable good faith solution that's been proposed either. Israeli negotiators have even admitted that any two state solution proposals they've provided they would not accept themselves, if they were Palestinians.
And if you think Palestinians are the only bad faith actors in this, then you are not paying attention.
Eventually a 2 state solution is the ONLY solution if you don't want just another 50 - 100 - however many years of bloodshed.
The problem is however that any of the current ideas for a "2 state solution" are completely unworkable and unfair and will make a huge mess.
Israel needs to be a solid, defended contiguous country with clearly defined borders and access to the sea and their neigbours, no external armies or governments telling them what they can or cannot do and enough space for their population to grow and enjoy life. With enough natural resources to have a proper economy that is self sufficient.
Any "Palestinian state" also needs to be a full sovereign, defended, solid contiguous country with clearly defined borders, and access to the sea and their neigbours, no external armies or governments telling them what they can or cannot do and enough space for their population to grow and enjoy life.
With enough natural resources to have a proper economy that is self sufficient.
There simply isn't enough room right in that spot for both of them to happen, there is really only room in that spot for 1 of them to have that.
Both are going to have to do some serious moving around regardless.
Perhaps once the Ukraine runs out of Ukrainians to die for the profits and glory of the west, then the Israeli government could buy all the "Palestinian" land from them at top dollar and they could all pack up and move to the now mostly devoid of males Ukraine and then Blackrock can get the contract to take all the "Aid" money and build them new cities and infrastructure.
Israel gets a nice country
"Palestinians" get a nice country
Russia gets a small buffer state filled with Arabs that will never want to help the west
The west gets a small buffer state that will never want to help the Russians
Blackrock and all the politicians in the west can get an extra big payout and be happy.
Or I mean Israel could go take the Sinai back from Egypt again and fix it up nicely and make that the new "Palestine" and the world could agree to recognize that as a sovereign country with it's own right to self defense, it's own borders and sea access and it's right to not be told what to do by others.