"a nail in the coffin of the two-state solution"


That coffin's been buried for a while - and its cadaver kept alive through illusion.

Referring to the much-lauded 1990 Madrid "peace talks" former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir boasted to a Hebrew newspaper his strategy then was "drag" negotiations while doubling the number of "settlers" (colonists) something he and successive governments not only achieved but surpassed, with a wink and a nod from Washington and courtesy of US taxpayers.

Trump will likely move the US embassy to Jerusalem, effectively legitimizing the settlements. At least that will end the farcical charade of Washington claiming to support a two-state solution while funding the settlements that make it impossible.

Trouble is, as Ehud Barak once warned, the alternative to a two-state is a one state solution, destined to herald either full-scale apartheid or because of demographics, the end of a Jewish majority.