'A Long Record of Failure': Is It Time to Put the Two-State Solution to Rest?

'A long record of failure': Is it time to put the two-state solution to rest?

In my years as an editor on the opinion desk at the Forward, I’ve gotten dozens of emails from writers proclaiming that they’ve come up with the solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their ideas are rarely original, or practical. Still, I can’t help but empathize with their desire to cut through this Gordian knot of history, violence, religion and land, and create something approaching peace. There are, however, two people whose ideas o…

How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster

The veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and they know why it failed.