Two State Solution

October 7 revealed why Two-State Solution won't work, what will actually protect Israel - opinion

After October 7 shattered Israel’s Gaza assumptions, a hard security reassessment is unavoidable. The classic two-state model no longer fits, but alternatives could better protect Israel.

|ByGIORA EILAND
An Israeli soldier is seen in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, on October 27, 2023
A woman waves a flag as demonstrators take part in a protest under the slogan 'Greenland is for Greenlanders' in front of the US Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 14, 2026.

Denmark refuses to consider its own two-state solution, yet preaches one for Israel - opinion

Denmark has now been handed an extraordinary historical opportunity to move beyond rhetoric. The time has come not merely to advocate a two-state solution abroad, but to model it at home.

|ByALBERT VEKSLER/THE MEDIA LINE
A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

Israeli-Palestinian peace is just one election away – and it could happen in 2026 - opinion

In 2026, the State of Israel will go to elections to elect a new government. In 2026, the Palestinians will also go to elections to elect a new government.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestine march in Berlin January 10, 2009. More that 6000 people shouted anti-Israel slogans to protest against the air strikes and the military action in the Gaza Strip, police said on Saturday

Jordan is the Palestinian state the world refuses to see - opinion

The world clings to the idea of a Palestinian state, but Jordan is already the Palestinian state in every sense except its name.

|ByREUVEN BERKO 

Seven European countries condemn Operation 'Gideon's Chariot' ahead of its start

The statement said that expanded operations would cross a red line and would affect "any prospects of a viable two-state solution."

MAY 16, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF troops operate in northern Gaza, May 15, 2025.

Benny Gantz: 'No need to renew settlement in Gaza,' settlements needed in West Bank

Gantz also added that "important settlements need to happen in the West Bank, in the North and the South.”

MAY 8, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
National Unity head MK Benny Gantz speaks at the Knesset. March 17, 2025.

France’s Middle East envoy: I have confidence in Macron’s peace plan - interview

"If humanitarian aid does not enter... France is ready to deploy its army and French organizations...to assist with the problem and distribute the aid ourselves,” Bronstein stated. 

APRIL 16, 2025ByJUDE TARAGIN
Ofer Bronchtein, French envoy for Israeli-Palestinian affairs and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Pursuing peace after a massacre: A naive dream or a commendable attribute? - opinion

This attraction to peace is firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.

MARCH 30, 2025ByURI PILICHOWSKI
JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv after the UN voted on November 29, 1947, in favor of the Partition Plan, paving the way for the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. The state has centered the Land of Israel in Jewish life in a position it hasn’t played in two millennia.

Palestinians need to take responsibility for their own future if they want a state - opinion

When Palestinians stop showing up for the rallies surrounding the Israeli hostage handovers and instead demand Hamas surrender and return the hostages, Palestinians will be ready for their own state.

MARCH 23, 2025ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS from Workers for a Free Palestine gather outside the FCDO in London, last July. When the Palestinians take responsibility for their actions and create a peaceful, functional, democratic society, then they will be ready for a state, the writer argues.

Trump has brought most dramatic advancements for sustainable Mideast peace - opinion

Until now, Gazans have been used as pawns to promote the Western concept of Palestinianism.

MARCH 11, 2025ByGOL KALEV
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (left) and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, in Oslo, in January.

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.

MARCH 9, 2025ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
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.

MARCH 3, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
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.

MARCH 2, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

FEBRUARY 4, 2025ByGOL KALEV
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.