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Why Netanyahu’s ultra-right allies risk driving Israel over a cliff

Why Netanyahu’s ultra-right allies risk driving Israel over a cliff

Israel will need to practise a lot of self-discipline to preserve stability and avoid burying the two-state solution and the one-state solution in the same grave.

A week of reporting from Israel and the West Bank has left me feeling that the prospect for a two-state solution has all but vanished. But no one wants to formally declare it dead and buried – because categorically ruling it out would have enormous ramifications.

So diplomats, politicians and liberal Jewish organisations pretend that it still has a faint heartbeat. I do as well. But we all know that the two-state option is not in hospital. It’s in hospice. Only a miracle cure could save it now.

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