Everyone knows, more or less, what the terms for a two-state compromise are.
Israelis fear that Palestinians now really want not a two-state compromise but the elimination of Israel.
Then came the Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, the collapse and scattering of Palestinian society, the frustrating search for a two-state compromise.
Even the most optimistic and dovish Israelis began to think that Arafat was interested not in a two-state compromise but, rather, in a condition of permanent conflict.
In the nineteen-nineties, Barghouti was a favored interlocutor of the Israeli left, a stalwart advocate of a two-state compromise, but in the first two years of the second Palestinian intifada both his rhetoric and his actions became extreme.
In fact, when you go back and look at what Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu's predecessor, offered Abbas — a real two-state compromise, including a deal on Jerusalem — and you think that Abbas spurned that offer, and you think that Netanyahu already gave Abbas a 10-month settlement freeze and Abbas only entered serious talks in the ninth month, you have to wonder how committed he is.
Late on Sunday, April 27, the Daily Beast's Josh Rogin reported that Kerry warned of the possibility that Israel could revert to an "apartheid state" if its leadership proved unable or unwilling to sign onto a two-state compromise.
No battle took place, and the two states compromised on the border issue.
Always underfunded and flailing for its next breath, A.M.C. lived in a constant state of compromise.
A two-thirds vote of the Legislature is required to pass any budget or raise any tax in the state, and compromise has become a dirty word.
And they said the hospital's failure led to the state's compromise with a dangerous predator who could have been sent away for life.
