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A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians

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I’ve doggedly avoided commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict up until now. This conflict is one where the amount of emotion, ideology, and media attention in the U.S. and the West in general is far out of proportion to how much it actually affects American strategic interests. The Middle East is rapidly decreasing in global importance, and the U.S. has wisely begun to disentangle ourselves from the region, so our interest in this conflict is mostly humanitarian in nature. And while wars like the one that just erupted between Israel and Hamas are brutal and nasty, neither side seems likely to destroy the other; the cycle of violence will simply continue, accompanied by endless rounds of bitter but ineffectual screeching in the Western media. But I do think it’s useful to try to see through to a realistic endpoint for this conflict, even if that end is unlikely to come anytime soon. The last endpoint that people tried to envision was the “two-state solution”, represented by the O

I’ve doggedly avoided commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict up until now. This conflict is one where the amount of emotion, ideology, and media attention in the U.S. and the West in general is far out of proportion to how much it actually affects American strategic interests. The Middle East is rapidly decreasing in global importance, and the U.S. has wisely begun to disentangle ourselves from the region, so our interest in this conflict is mostly humanitarian in nature. And while wars like the one that just erupted between Israel and Hamas are brutal and nasty, neither side seems…

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