Two State Solution

Are Israeli ‘settlements’ illegal? - opinion

The idea of a “two-state solution,” creating another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, is not realistic or practical.

|ByMOSHE DANN
View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong , and Canadian Foreign Minister, Anita Anand, conduct a video meeting with Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, at Chevening House, June 11, 2026 in Sevenoaks, Britain.

Britain launches Israel-Palestine peace fund alongside Australia, Canada

The fund complements the UK's wider efforts to support a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, said Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last in December 2023.

Israeli, Palestinian civil society meet in France as two-state solution dims

The meeting, attended by foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries, marks one year since the UN-backed New York Declaration, which set out a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood

|ByREUTERS
Palestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019.

UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, NZ sanction West Bank settler individuals, entities

Six countries, including the UK and Canada, imposed joint sanctions on West Bank settlers and entities over violence, calling the actions a threat to a two-state solution.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER, MICHAEL STARR

Pursuing peace after a massacre: A naive dream or a commendable attribute? - opinion

This attraction to peace is firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.

MARCH 30, 2025ByURI PILICHOWSKI
JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv after the UN voted on November 29, 1947, in favor of the Partition Plan, paving the way for the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. The state has centered the Land of Israel in Jewish life in a position it hasn’t played in two millennia.

Palestinians need to take responsibility for their own future if they want a state - opinion

When Palestinians stop showing up for the rallies surrounding the Israeli hostage handovers and instead demand Hamas surrender and return the hostages, Palestinians will be ready for their own state.

MARCH 23, 2025ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS from Workers for a Free Palestine gather outside the FCDO in London, last July. When the Palestinians take responsibility for their actions and create a peaceful, functional, democratic society, then they will be ready for a state, the writer argues.

Trump has brought most dramatic advancements for sustainable Mideast peace - opinion

Until now, Gazans have been used as pawns to promote the Western concept of Palestinianism.

MARCH 11, 2025ByGOL KALEV
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (left) and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, in Oslo, in January.

Those in the US who support a two-state solution, are no longer in line with Israel - opinion

The baseline qualifier for an American pro-Israel organization should be promoting policies that are in line with mainstream Israeli policy.

MARCH 9, 2025ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
FOREIGN MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar addresses a meeting of his parliamentary faction last month. He has said that a Palestinian state would be ‘a cancer in the heart of our homeland.’

The 45 years since Yigal Allon’s death - opinion

“Yigal left so much undone. But it is as if he made us, who worked closely with him, promise to go on struggling for the things he believed in," a eulogy wrote.

MARCH 3, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
YIGAL ALLON served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1977. His premature death at age 61 ‘left so much undone,’ laments the writer.

‘The end of the two-state solution hope in my lifetime,' says US Reform rabbi

"The Palestinians themselves strangled this fragile hope in its crib," Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said.

MARCH 2, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
New York, NY USA - April 20, 2024 : Protesters waving Palestinian flags and sign at a demonstration near Columbia University Medical Center at the Plaza de las Americas in Washington Heights, New York

Paving the path to peace: Pronouncing the two-state solution dead - opinion

The two-state solution dominated peace-making to such an extent that it was taboo to explore other frameworks.

FEBRUARY 4, 2025ByGOL KALEV
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL António Guterres speaks as he visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel. Western public opinion was shaped to believe that ‘October 7 did not happen in a vacuum,’ to use Guterres’s words, says the writer.

'I deny the killings, I deny the rape,' Palestinian ex-prisoner tells Zach Sage Fox

"In Islam, they can't kill babies, they can't kill women, they don't kill innocent Israelis," Daoud claimed. "Hamas is an Islamic movement, Hamas not like Daesh, like Isis."

JANUARY 22, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Zach Sage Fox in Ramallah

Biden says Netanyahu should accommodate 'legitimate concerns' of Palestinians

The outgoing President said that Israel can't sustain itself without a long-term commitment with Palestinian factions.

JANUARY 17, 2025ByREUTERS
US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.

Huckabee: Two-state solution not likely under Trump

Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israel, highlighted the achievements of the Trump administration’s first term, including the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

JANUARY 16, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee moderates a roundtable discussion with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29, 2024.