Two State Solution

Mamdani: ‘I can’t tell you I support’ Israel as a Jewish state

“I believe that any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else,” Mayor Mamdani said.  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 28: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends the 2026 Pride March in New York City.
View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026.

Are Israeli ‘settlements’ illegal? - opinion

Britain's Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong , and Canadian Foreign Minister, Anita Anand, conduct a video meeting with Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, at Chevening House, June 11, 2026 in Sevenoaks, Britain.

Britain launches Israel-Palestine peace fund alongside Australia, Canada

ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last in December 2023.

Israeli, Palestinian civil society meet in France as two-state solution dims


France’s Middle East envoy: I have confidence in Macron’s peace plan - interview

"If humanitarian aid does not enter... France is ready to deploy its army and French organizations...to assist with the problem and distribute the aid ourselves,” Bronstein stated. 

 Ofer Bronchtein, French envoy for Israeli-Palestinian affairs and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Pursuing peace after a massacre: A naive dream or a commendable attribute? - opinion

This attraction to peace is firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.

JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv after the UN voted on November 29, 1947, in favor of the Partition Plan, paving the way for the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. The state has centered the Land of Israel in Jewish life in a position it hasn’t played in two millennia.

Palestinians need to take responsibility for their own future if they want a state - opinion

When Palestinians stop showing up for the rallies surrounding the Israeli hostage handovers and instead demand Hamas surrender and return the hostages, Palestinians will be ready for their own state.

 PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS from Workers for a Free Palestine gather outside the FCDO in London, last July. When the Palestinians take responsibility for their actions and create a peaceful, functional, democratic society, then they will be ready for a state, the writer argues.

Trump has brought most dramatic advancements for sustainable Mideast peace - opinion

Until now, Gazans have been used as pawns to promote the Western concept of Palestinianism.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (left) and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, in Oslo, in January.

Those in the US who support a two-state solution, are no longer in line with Israel - opinion

The baseline qualifier for an American pro-Israel organization should be promoting policies that are in line with mainstream Israeli policy.

 FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar addresses a meeting of his parliamentary faction last month. He has said that a Palestinian state would be ‘a cancer in the heart of our homeland.’

The 45 years since Yigal Allon’s death - opinion

“Yigal left so much undone. But it is as if he made us, who worked closely with him, promise to go on struggling for the things he believed in," a eulogy wrote.

 YIGAL ALLON served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1977. His premature death at age 61 ‘left so much undone,’ laments the writer.

‘The end of the two-state solution hope in my lifetime,' says US Reform rabbi

"The Palestinians themselves strangled this fragile hope in its crib," Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said.

 New York, NY USA - April 20, 2024 : Protesters waving Palestinian flags and sign at a demonstration near Columbia University Medical Center at the Plaza de las Americas in Washington Heights, New York

Paving the path to peace: Pronouncing the two-state solution dead - opinion

The two-state solution dominated peace-making to such an extent that it was taboo to explore other frameworks.

 UN SECRETARY-GENERAL António Guterres speaks as he visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel. Western public opinion was shaped to believe that ‘October 7 did not happen in a vacuum,’ to use Guterres’s words, says the writer.

'I deny the killings, I deny the rape,' Palestinian ex-prisoner tells Zach Sage Fox

"In Islam, they can't kill babies, they can't kill women, they don't kill innocent Israelis," Daoud claimed. "Hamas is an Islamic movement, Hamas not like Daesh, like Isis."

 Zach Sage Fox in Ramallah

Biden says Netanyahu should accommodate 'legitimate concerns' of Palestinians

The outgoing President said that Israel can't sustain itself without a long-term commitment with Palestinian factions.

 US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.