“There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Biden said last week of the war between Israel and Hamas.
“In our view, it has to be a two-state solution.” The surest path to peace, said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain, is a two-state solution, a sentiment echoed by President Emmanuel Macron of France.
And yet, the two-state solution — Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in their own sovereign countries — is getting a new hearing, not just in foreign-policy circles in Washington, London and Paris but also, more quietly, among the combatants themselves.
“If America engages in what President Biden has stated he would commit to, there is a chance,” he said.
“There is a chance for negotiations that could provide a step-by-step process to two distinct states.”
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