Such an action, in addition to being illegal under international law, would bury any chance for a future Palestinian state, the two-state solution that until now had underpinned U.S. policy toward the Middle East.
"Netanyahu is leading us to a binational state and fleeing the two-state solution that is Israel's interest.
However the approximate solution does not converge to the steady state solution that is known exactly.
The draft resolution – in its latest form - demands that: "Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem" adding settlements have "no legal validity" and are "dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-state solution" that would see an independent state of Palestine co-exist alongside Israel.
He did not want Hamas to be part of an Arafat-led government, but in conversation he sometimes seemed to envisage a future role as a loyal opposition.An offer they can refuseHamas stridently opposed the two-state solution that was the basis of the Oslo accords, and many of its members still speak of the Jewish state in blood-curdling terms.
We admit, that in certain circumstances it may not be possible to identify the steady state solution that has to be subtracted off.
According to one poll last year, Palestinians support negotiations with Israel, but by a "2-to-1 margin they also oppose the two-state solution that's been the stated goal of negotiations," with most preferring "ending up with a single state" instead.
Henry A. Lowenstein New York, Sept.15, 2009 To the Editor: It is true that the Middle Eastern imbroglio has presented a monumental test of the political weight, commitment and courage of President Obama to end the spiral of lost opportunities and reignite the two-state solution that remains the only modus operandi available in finding a way out of this festering 60-year-old stalemate.
The European Union also supported the resolution, saying that continued settlement building threatened the realization of the two-state solution that had been a goal of the peace process for years.
On Monday, he ramped up his years of criticism of Israeli policy by saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lacked the courage of his predecessors and that he had abandoned the two-state solution that has been the accepted framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
Our voting pattern conveys that Australians are happy to go along with Israeli behaviour deliberately – the word can no longer be avoided – designed to undermine the two-state solution that has been the mantra of all sides in the post-1967 battle for an Israel-Palestine peace.
