Two State Solution

Controversy stirred as Schumer's call for Israeli elections challenged alliances. Explore the delicate balance between support and intervention.

That is because those two things are not mutually exclusive, as many would have you believe today, both on the Right and Left.

Schumer identified Netanyahu as one of four main obstacles to achieving lasting peace in the Middle East.

The official said Palestinian statehood must be "irreversible" and "irrevocable."

The former CIA chief stated Israel cannot “stop until Hamas has been destroyed and cannot be reconstituted.”

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.