A homeland for the Palestinians

24 September 2025, The Tablet

Mourners embrace in Gaza.

Alamy

Netanyahu may think that Israel needs Hamas and its allies as enemies bent on its destruction, to neutralise the possibility of a two-state solution.

What he fails to grasp, even from his own Jewish history, is that the idea of a national homeland for a people as their birthright is so compelling and profound that it is almost impossible, in the long run, to deny it.

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