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I used to believe there should be a Palestine and an Israel. But, they both want something that they are totally unwilling to share with the other. Furthermore,

• dbspin 6y ago
  Unfortunately that's not an option available to the Palestinians. You don't get to have a one-state solution when you're effectively held prisoner in an apartheid occupied territory.
• nostromo 6y ago
  "Might makes right" is a pretty grim worldview. Besides, the dominant player here is only dominant because of other colonial powers, namely the US.
• rowanseymour 6y ago
  Israel has won in the sense that a two state solution is no longer an option. There's not enough land left to give the Palestinians a viable state of their own. So that leaves two options. A continuation of the status quo with Palestinians living under eternal occupation and apartheid surrounded by growing settlements. Or a single state with equal rights for all.
  • drak0n1c 6y ago
    The single state solution is idyllic, but disfavored by both sides because there is shared fear of the country going the way of Lebanon afterwards - devolved into factionalism with zero sense of shared nationality.