Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Is the two-state solution a real answer?


An Israeli tank manoeuvring near the Israel-Gaza border on June 27, 2024, during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that began on Oct 7, 2023. — Reuters

THE United States and the G7, the European Union, the Arab League, China, India, and several other nations – including Malaysia – have all sounded convinced at one point or the other that the “two-state solution” is a real answer to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The proposal that Palestine be carved into two states – one for the Jews and the other for the Palestinians – was first floated by the British in the 1930s and then adopted as a United Nations General Assembly Resolution in 1947.

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