The fallacy of the two-state solution

Still today, Biden says he remains in favor of the “two-state solution” that would create an independent Israel and Palestine, in which both Israelis and Palestinians could run their countries differently. 

Israelis with their Jewish flavor, and the Palestinians (maybe) with a Muslim one. The problem however is that over the years, there’s not much left of the Palestinian state to make it viable. It’s become so small and so fragmented that the Arabs can’t accept it in its current form and the Israelis want even less, not more Arabs around them. 

Folks who believe in that doomed concept are either naive, stupid or hypocrit, and it only serves Netanyahou’s extremist government who counts on time to further erode and totally destroy what could be (on paper only) an Arab state. 

That leaves us with the “one-state solution”, that is the merger of Israel with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into a larger, more viable country that could be formidably viable without an endless war. 

We should get used to the idea, because the two-state idea has proven to be a dead-end dream. Instead, there should be a federation of Jews and Arabs in a single democratic and secular country, where the concept of Jewish-only state would have to disappear.

This change would be painful and difficult to swallow and get used to for all parties involved, but would by be far much more preferable than the apartheid-style of governance Israel is forcing on its Arab neighbors and the endless fights and recrimination this dysfunctional relationship forces upon its population…