If the French and the Algerians could make peace, so can Israelis and Palestinians. Conditions are more than ripe for both sides to end the Arab-Israeli conflict by moving toward a comprehensive peace settlement based on a two-state solution along the 1967 lines.
In November 1977, the late Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, told Israel’s Knesset, “The October War should be the last war.” Allowing myself to dream, I expect countries around the world to merge their efforts and make the current Gaza war the region’s last. The opportunity exists.
The shocking Hamas attack on October 7 for Israelis and the subsequent calamity that has hit the 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can be the best catalyst to push both sides toward a historical and genuine rapprochement that ends the conflict and leaves all the pain behind.
Jews living in the West Bank
While the US administration has long managed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it has never tried to move into a solution paradigm. For years, the US administration turned a blind eye to Israel’s breaches of the Oslo Accords. It watched as Israel continued its settlement activities and construction in the Occupied Territories or by took various unilateral measures on the ground that jeopardized any future chance of reaching a final status agreement with the Palestinians. READ MORE
