Netanyahu's office rejects calls for two-state solution, saying it's 'not the time' to speak about 'gifts'

[Nanjeanne]

From Haaretz daily updates

"Now is not the time to be speaking about gifts for the Palestinian people," Avi Hyman, a spokesperson in the Prime Minister's Office, told CNN during a press briefing, in reference to talk of a Palestinian state.

CNN had asked Hyman about a report by The Washington Post that the Biden Administration and "a small group of Middle East partners" are working to formulate a comprehensive peace plan, which "could be announced as early as the next several weeks."

Hyman responded, "Here is Israel, we're still in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre."
"Now is the time for victory – total victory against Hamas. And we will continue on the path to victory. All discussions about the day after Hamas will be had the day after Hamas," said Hyman.

My heart bleeds for my Israeli family and friends, for the Palestinians suffering, for the hostages and their families, for the Gazans facing a horrific crisis. With this kind of talk I see no ending of this war, no peace for anyone and no return of hostages. I’ve never felt so bleak.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The 2 state solution should have been drawn out before 1948

when the British Government created the state of Israel that was hammered out for a home for European Jews who survived the Holocaust.

The opposition to a 2 state solution keeps this whole mess alive and not for good reasons. Netanyahu has blood on his hands going back over 30 years of resisting such ideas.

[The Magistrate]

2. It Was: The Mandate Was Divided Into An Arab And A Jewish Zone

The intent was for two states, which were to co-operate in things like customs and postal matters.

Netanyahu is a late-comer to the long tradition of violent opposition to two states, one Jewish and one Arab, living as neighbors.

[Kid Charlemagne]

4. Those who fail to learn from history are probably doing poorly in trig as well

There was a two-state solution in 48. It was summarily rejected and created the endless Palestinian "refugee" crisis in which the great grandchildren of people who lived twenty miles away are still somehow "refugees."

[The Magistrate]

3. The Statement Is Nonesense, Ma'am

War aims to create a situation more favorable to the warring state than that extant at the start of hostilities.

So what a government wants the peace to look like is certainly part of its war planning. Only an idiot or a liar pretends that only when victory is achieved is any consideration to be given to what comes next.

What a government wants the peace to look like must in some degree guide its military operations during hostilities. It is quite possible military actions, even though achieving an enemy's capitulation, may prejudice the government's securing a peace of the shape it intended when hostilities commenced. Should this occur, victory has not really been attained.