Two State Solution

UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, NZ sanction West Bank settler individuals, entities

Six countries, including the UK and Canada, imposed joint sanctions on West Bank settlers and entities over violence, calling the actions a threat to a two-state solution.

Palestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their vote during the elections for the Likud Central Committee, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025

Israel and the Middle East are one election away from peace - opinion

Palestinian students hold signs demanding the reopening of the road to their school, which was closed by Israeli security forces in Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, April 26, 2026.

If you were a Palestinian, could you see a way forward for peace with Israel? - opinion

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon arrival for meetings at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025.

Europe’s ideological divide from the US and Israel is reshaping the Middle East - opinion


Those in the US who support a two-state solution, are no longer in line with Israel - opinion

The baseline qualifier for an American pro-Israel organization should be promoting policies that are in line with mainstream Israeli policy.

 FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar addresses a meeting of his parliamentary faction last month. He has said that a Palestinian state would be ‘a cancer in the heart of our homeland.’

The 45 years since Yigal Allon’s death - opinion

“Yigal left so much undone. But it is as if he made us, who worked closely with him, promise to go on struggling for the things he believed in," a eulogy wrote.

 YIGAL ALLON served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1977. His premature death at age 61 ‘left so much undone,’ laments the writer.

‘The end of the two-state solution hope in my lifetime,' says US Reform rabbi

"The Palestinians themselves strangled this fragile hope in its crib," Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said.

 New York, NY USA - April 20, 2024 : Protesters waving Palestinian flags and sign at a demonstration near Columbia University Medical Center at the Plaza de las Americas in Washington Heights, New York

Paving the path to peace: Pronouncing the two-state solution dead - opinion

The two-state solution dominated peace-making to such an extent that it was taboo to explore other frameworks.

 UN SECRETARY-GENERAL António Guterres speaks as he visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel. Western public opinion was shaped to believe that ‘October 7 did not happen in a vacuum,’ to use Guterres’s words, says the writer.

'I deny the killings, I deny the rape,' Palestinian ex-prisoner tells Zach Sage Fox

"In Islam, they can't kill babies, they can't kill women, they don't kill innocent Israelis," Daoud claimed. "Hamas is an Islamic movement, Hamas not like Daesh, like Isis."

 Zach Sage Fox in Ramallah

Biden says Netanyahu should accommodate 'legitimate concerns' of Palestinians

The outgoing President said that Israel can't sustain itself without a long-term commitment with Palestinian factions.

 US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.

Huckabee: Two-state solution not likely under Trump

Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israel, highlighted the achievements of the Trump administration’s first term, including the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

 Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee moderates a roundtable discussion with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29, 2024.

Today’s Palestinian advocates should be ashamed of themselves - opinion

Anyone promoting a two-state solution that omits the transformative changes which must take place in Palestinian society should be ashamed. 

UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola attend a news conference in Pretoria.

Editor's Notes: No more status-quo, we need a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A status-quo situation allowed for the October 7 attack to take place. It’s time for us all to put on our thinking caps and discuss how we can move forward from here.

 It’s time for us all to put on our thinking caps and discuss how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - If not to achieve peace, at least for us to live here securely.

10 dilemmas of a Palestinian state, 10 questions Middle East policymakers forget to ask - opinion

David Bedein lists the 10 dilemmas posed by a Palestinian state followed by 10 questions that Middle East policymakers should ask.

 MARCO RUBIO, tapped to be the next US secretary of state, is seen as a strong supporter of Israel. He has backed a two-state resolution to the conflict while supporting Israel’s right to portions of the West Bank.