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Good questions from Sky News

Israel's open rejection of a 'two-state solution' undermines US Middle East policy

There is no longer any pretence. Israel is no longer dancing around the idea of two states. It isn't going to happen - that is their policy....

America's backing for Israel's military offensive, which has now killed more than 18,000 Gazans, is predicated on the policy of two states at some point after.

Yet it's clear now that America is backing Israel militarily, with US weapons and funding, despite two starkly different end point objectives.

The ambassador's remarks now put Israel in open defiance of every American president's policy going back 40 years.

For many observers, Israel's objection to two states has been clear for years.

The facts on the ground have been shifting for decades and have accelerated in recent years, under the latest iteration of Netanyahu's government, with illegal Jewish settlements expanding rapidly in the occupied West Bank.

The scale and brutality of the Hamas attacks of 7 October have allowed Israel to make its objectives plain.

Is the military operation in Gaza rendering a Palestinian state politically and geographically impossible? Israel is razing the strip.

The question is - how will America now respond to this?

If it is one state not two, then how does that possibly work? Equal rights for all? How do Israelis and Palestinians power share?

The truth is, they can't. So where now?

https://news.sky.com/story/israels-o...olicy-13029952