Jonathan Freedland’s article (Netanyahu is an existential threat to Israel. He can be resisted – but only with Palestinian support, 3 February) gives me some faint hope that the extremists now in power in Jerusalem may be pushing their luck too far and thus may inadvertently help bring about a more conciliatory politics in their country (and abroad).
The two-state solution still trumpeted by Israel’s allies on both sides of the Atlantic has been dead for a long time, and Israel/Palestine has become a two-nation state where one of the two is oppressed and disenfranchised by the other. It’s about time we all woke up to this fact. The solution is conceptually quite simple: create a true democracy, ie one person one vote. Reconciliation may take a very long time, but that’s the only hope for a semblance of peace in the future.
Ursula Haeckel
Liverpool
