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The problem with the two-state solution is that it never was two states: it is one state superimposed on top of another like a palimpsest. The ideal must surely be a one-state solution, where citizenship is based neither on ethnicity nor on religion. I believe that the two-state solution is never going to happen – it has become a means for politicians to pay lip-service to the Palestinians while doing absolutely fuck all.
'Two sides with God on their side' (in my opinion etc etc) radically underestimates the historical/ political wrong that has been done to the Palestinians. In no small part by Britain, originally. To dismiss it as a religious conflict is to make us all feel a bit better, I suspect.
The London Review of Books always has excellent essays on Israel/Palestine which I'd recommend to anyone.