The gap between the positions of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be widening. Last week, Netanyahu released a blueprint for a postwar Gaza that called for indefinite Israeli military control of the strip and effectively ruled out Palestinian statehood in the near future. This plan runs counter to Biden’s support for an eventual two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Instead of simply calling for peace in the Middle East, the Biden administration should “recognize that its rhetoric about a two-state future has failed and shift toward an approach focused on dealing with the situation as it is,” write Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami. Indeed, they write, “there is no immediate path forward without first coming to terms with the darker one-state reality that Israel has consolidated.”
Is the two-state solution still viable? We asked dozens of experts including former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, Haaretz editor Aluf Benn, veteran peace negotiator Khaled Elgindy, human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan, and the author Nathan Thrall to weigh in. Explore the full range of responses here.
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