In so many conversations with Israel hawks over the years, I have sensed that the plans all had an asterisk in them somewhere.
A monument engraved with the names of fallen Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem on May 7. By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist May 9 at 4:59 PM JERUSALEM — At 8 p.m. on Tuesday, all activity paused throughout much of Jerusalem. Cars pulled over, and people stood still as air-raid sirens sounded across the city to signal the beginning of Israel’s Memorial Day.
In the coming weeks, President Trump will apparently launch the “deal of the century” for Middle East peace, a deal that promises to be quite favorable to Israel. The idea seems to be that the Palestinians will have to accept something much less than full statehood within the West Bank and Gaza Strip, because Trump’s prior actions, such as moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and dramatically cutting U.S.
A one-state solution would mean the loss of Israel’s Jewish character and commands little political support. But the longer the status quo continues, and with it the Judaization of Jerusalem and the West Bank, the closer to impossible a two-state solution becomes, not least because the radicalized Palestinians cannot develop the state capacity to run even an autonomous zone.
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