Paris summit to declare two-state solution only way to peace

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. They've already committed it.

The only way Israel could conceivably have existed permanently as a Jewish state in Palestine was along side a viable Palestinian state, and they've systematically made that impossible.

What is needed now is pressure from the outside world on Israel, and support for the Palestinians, to make the inevitable as quick and painless as possible - which, sadly, will still be slow and very painful.

What I suspect will happen now is that Israel will continue to expand and oppress, the Palestinians will stop calling for a homeland and start calling for citizenship, it will become harder and harder to pretend that Israel is not an apartheid state, support for Israel will become first a partisan right-wing issue and then a fringe position, international pressure will mount, and ultimately Jewish Israelis will end up in a similar grim position to white Zimbabweans. That's moderately appalling, but less appalling than letting government of the Palestinians, by the Israels, for the Jews continue unchecked.