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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Harriet Sherwood

Israel-Palestine: Is the two-state solution the answer to the crisis?

A Palestinian man carries a small child along a badly demolished road.
A Palestinian man carries his child along a road ripped up by an Israeli bulldozer during a military operation in the West Bank last week. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

The “day after” the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza may still be weeks or months away. But it will come. “When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next,” said US president Joe Biden recently. “And in our view, it has to be a two-state solution.”

Against a backdrop of repeated cycles of violence and a military occupation lasting more than half a century, diplomats and analysts agree that lasting peace must follow the bloodiest fighting between Israelis and Palestinians for decades.

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