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August 3, 2020

The Real Reason There Is No Palestinian State

Palestinian leaders have rejected it.

For over a decade, elite opinion in the West has been warning that Israel, through its actions, is slowly making the two-state solution impossible, or that the “window” for such an arrangement is “closing” unless Israel takes some dramatic action. More recently, we have heard that the U.S., by moving its embassy to that part of Jerusalem that has been under Israeli control since 1948, has somehow made Palestinian statehood less likely. These dire warnings omit the simple fact that it was Palestinian leaders who have prevented the emergence of a Palestinian state, as Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf write:

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August 3, 2020

  1. The Real Reason There Is No Palestinian State

    Palestinian leaders have rejected it.

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