The two-state solution – Israelis and Palestinians need a land to call their own
Alamy
Britain is one of the sponsors of a major diplomatic effort to revive the two-state solution to the Middle Eastern conflict between Arabs and Jews. It is about time
The policy of the Israeli government towards Palestinians in Gaza, which has resulted in disease, hunger, malnutrition and even children dying of starvation, is now recognised to be catastrophic and outside all norms of civilised behaviour. It could not be allowed to continue. Even Donald Trump seems to have realised this, as one of his key constituencies, the conservative evangelicals who are at the core of his MAGA movement, has begun to turn against Israel. The images of emaciated babies on television are not easily forgotten. President Trump has at last grasped that he was being lied to by Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister repeatedly denied what was becoming obvious: children were dying of hunger, and his policies were to blame.
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