What would a “two-state solution” have to look like if Israel were even remotely to consider it? Mitchell Bard lays out the most complete summary I have seen as to what would be necessary here: “The two-state solution is a suicide pact,” by Mitchell Bard, JNS, October 28, 2026:
If the Palestinians had a state, would Iran have abandoned its nuclear ambitions? Would it have stopped financing Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis? Would Tehran cease threatening the Sunni Arab states? Would the Muslim Brotherhood disappear? Most important, would a Palestinian state have prevented Oct. 7?
The answer to every question is almost certainly no. Yet listening to the chorus demanding a Palestinian state, one might think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the source of every problem in the Middle East and that creating another Arab state would magically bring peace to the region.
History apparently means nothing to these people. When the PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Iran declare their intention to destroy Israel—and act on those declarations—why are they not taken seriously? Why are the threats of Israel’s enemies dismissed while the assurances of its critics are treated as gospel?
After Oct. 7, it should be inconceivable that anyone would demand Israel accept a potentially hostile Palestinian state on its borders. Instead, the massacre seems to have strengthened the determination of Israel’s critics to force precisely that outcome. The victims have been forgotten, the lessons ignored, and Israel is expected to risk national suicide to satisfy the consciences of Western virtue-signalers who will never have to live with the consequences.
The way advocates of a two-state solution squawk, one would think they had discovered some revolutionary idea or that peace was simply a matter of drawing a line on a map. What makes them believe a Palestinian state is any more achievable today than when Arab leaders rejected partition in 1937?
What magic formula have they discovered that eluded the architects of the Rogers Plan, Reagan Plan, Madrid Conference, Oslo Accords, Camp David negotiations, Road Map for Peace, Ehud Olmert peace offer, Obama administration initiatives and U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term “Deal of the Century”?
The two-staters never explain what has changed to make success more likely. They repeat the same mantra, as though saying “two states” often enough will make the obstacles disappear….
The “two-staters” assume that Israel will allow itself to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines (they were never recognized borders). That would leave the Jewish state with a nine-mile wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. An invading force from the east could slice Israel in two in a matter of hours, before Israel’s reservists could be called up. It’s a recipe for Israel’s destruction.
Read the whole of Mitchell Bard’s article. This is the most lucid presentation of the case against the soi-disant “two-state solution” that I have yet run across. I hope you will agree.
Beans🫘 says
SOMALIS KICK OUT PUPPIES OUT OF PUIC SCHOOL- SOMALI
A Maine public school administrator raised concerns about allowing dogs in classrooms because of Islamic religious beliefs about the animals, as the district considers changes to its classroom pet policy following a teacher’s request to foster puppies.
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed, Portland Public Schools’ assistant superintendent for student, family and community partnerships, discussed the concerns during an Oct. 14 policy committee meeting, explaining that some Islamic traditions consider dog saliva impure. Ahmed said he had consulted local Muslim religious leaders who opposed keeping dogs as classroom pets, according to a report by The National News Desk.
He went on to say that some Islamic traditions consider dogs unclean.
Ahmed, who was born and raised in Somalia, speaks Somali, according to his district biography. He also said the imams he spoke with did not want dogs kept as pets in classrooms.
Cathryn Paradise says
What everyone ignores is that is prior to Oct 7, 2023, Gaza had been an independent state for 20 years with self rule. On Oct 7 Hamas crossed into Israel and murdered, kidnapped and rape Israeli citizens without provocation. Hamas acted out of pure Satanic /Islamic hatred of the Jews and non-Muslims. Hamas PROVED they did not want a separate state but the extermination of Jews and non Muslims which all imans preach every where around the world.
Bexarkat says
A two-state solution that could be supported by the PA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Huties, the UN, the EU, China, Russia, North Korea, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens would look like this: Arabs would have all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and Israel would have all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus.
Stive says
For Americans to comprehend a 2 state solution for a tiny tiny country like Israel , it’s the same as the city in america that they live in with enemy tanks, mortars, etc just 3-5 miles from their homes. It don’t work. Plus history buffs will find that the 2 state solution was done a century ago as Jordan is eastern Israel or eastern Palestine.
somehistory says
Given more would lead to demanding more. They would see it as a weakness to be exploited, rather than having a place where the so-called ‘paestinians’ would rule themselves.
Taffy says
It is called the ratchet effect. If Israel caves in and gives up land to maintain peace, they will just demand more in the future to maintain peace. And what was ceded by Israel would be retrievable even if the Palis started a war. The Palis’ idea of a two state solution is to eventually turn it into a state one state solution “from the river to the sea.”
The same thing applies with respect to Kashmir. India must not let it slip out of their control.
jimjames says
There already has been a two state solution in 1948 between Jews and Arabs. The fake “palestinian people’ is an invention to steal the rest of the ancient Israeli homeland from Jews. This strategy has been openly written about and is no secret. The people who support this are non-Zionist Jews who are either brain dead or totally confused. From the river to the sea is land the Jew hating Muslims and the Jew hating colonial/imperial Europeans failed to take from Jews at the end of the Mandate for Palestine. The Arabs which includes a vast majority of Muslims, received some 78% of the Mandate that left only the western portion to Jews and even lumped off southern Lebanon for Christians that can’t be found today including in Bethlehem. Even floating the idea and dividing up Israel presently is setting up Jews for slaughter. Absolutely disingenuous to even propose such a travesty!
Walter Sieruk says
A so called “two state solution ” in would make that area of the Middle East look like the day after those murderous and destructive Hamas attacks South West of Israel and the worst hit cities in Gaza weeks after those vicious Hamas attacks. .
For in reality, a so called “two state solution” is actually no solution, at all , if anything it would the current situation in that part of the world even worse that it is now. That “two state solution” is not really a valid idea and not a genuine solution. It will definitely not stop this awful Israeli –Muslim land conflict.
Thus a “two state solution” is out of the question. .This is because a “two state solution” not really a “solution” but an Islamic ploy of deception , a smokescreen and hoax and a fraud.
For example those Hamas rocket attacks in to Israel from Gaza reveals that even the idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel. Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. Therefore, those “peace talks” are a hoax.
For the “Palestinian” leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocket attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel. For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
Pray Hard says
It would look like what it is … imaginary.
Pray Hard says
Why are we still swatting this fly?
Edmund Carey says
The two-state solution doesn’t sound ideal, but, it’s the lesser of two evils, isn’t it? Not supporting it is playing into the hands of those who advocate for a “one state solution”, which means a country from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean dominated by Arabs in which Jews will be returned to their old, traditional place in Arab/Muslim society as despised second class citizens.
somehistory says
Hardly a solution at all. Just as the “land for peace deals” of the past ….the Jews gave the Land, but the muzzies didn’t give the peace…didn’t work, the so-called “two state” wouldn’t work. for the very same reason.
muzzies want it all….and *all* means dead Jews….*all* of them must die and then the muzzies can go on to their next step in world domination.
Gaza is an example. All of the Jews were made to move out and leave the Land to the muzzies.
But, the muzzies kept on fighting and killing and demanding more.
The two threats says
Palestinians don’t genuinely want a Two-State Solution. They want a One-State Solution, in which Palestinians claim all territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and Israel is dissolved and Jews expelled. The Palestinians will wage perpetual Jihad until this objective is achieved, aided wittingly and unwittingly by Pro-Palestinian Leftist sympathisers.
An immediate Two-State Solution is possible if Jordan is renamed Palestine. Jordan was formed by the British unilaterally deciding to carve off nearly 80% of the then Palestinian Mandate and gifting that massive portion of
territory to the Arabs.
Minority Rights Group International estimated that there are around 3 million Palestinians in Jordan. Jordan has an estimated population of 11.5 million.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics claims that the number of Palestinians in the world reached about 15.5 million people by the end of 2025, of which an estimated 5.56 million Palestinians live in the so-called State of Palestine.
Were Jordan to be declared to be Palestine, all the long-term Palestinian refugees in camps in Jordan would become citizens in the new Palestine. Palestinians residing in Gaza and the West Bank could be induced and cajoled by carrot and stick to relocate to Jordan. Once Gaza and the West Bank are free of Palestinian Arabs, Israel would then be granted exclusive authority over these territories.
The end result would be a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs in the new nation of Palestine (nee Jordan), and a homeland for Jews in an Israel that includes Gaza and the West Bank.
Both Israel and Jordan could then strengthen the defences and border controls at their respective national borders. Once Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews are no longer living in close proximity, the risk of sectarian violence will decrease. The risks of Hamas terrorism or cross border rockets from Gaza would be reduced. Everyone could just get on with making their country prosperous.
A Palestinian state derived from Gaza and the West Bank is not feasible. But a Palestinian state based off the existing nation of Jordan is feasible.
Nicholas Tesdorf says
The best two-state solution would be Israel situated where it is and a separate Muslim state located in Antarctica.