Cameron also clarified that Hamas can not be part of any day-after plans for Gaza or indeed part of any configuration for a two-state resolution to the conflict.
Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, said that a two-state solution should be based on a sovereign Palestinian state on the territory occupied in 1967.
Establishing a Palestinian state has been a feature of Israeli rhetoric since the 1990s, and the majority of prime ministers have expressed willingness to agree to it, under certain conditions.
Israel must continue to resist international pressures, particularly from the US, to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.
By treating politics as transactional, Americans keep underestimating most Palestinians’ apocalyptic, all-or-nothing zealotry.
There is only one solution that holds any promise for a productive future for both of us, and that is to find some way to live together so that we are not constantly trying to kill each other.
The reality in Judea and Samaria is that Hamas, which also rejects the two-state solution, is the dominant political force for the vast majority of the population supporting the October 7 massacre.
Administration officials denied rumors that they will recognize Palestine, with Jack Lew saying that White House officials “have never said there should be a unilateral recognition.”
Giving recognition to the humanity of the other side is key to accepting the basic demand shared by both sides: self-determination in an independent and secure state: a two-state solution.
The state the Palestinian spokespersons are gunning for is also smack in the middle of the land-starved Jewish people’s tiny, zero-strategic-depth homeland.
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