Ursula Haeckel may be right that the extremism of the current Israeli government could lead to its own collapse and herald a more conciliatory alternative politics (Letters, 7 February). But while she confidently avows that the two-state solution is long dead, other interested parties are equally convinced there is no alternative to it. The greater danger is that there may be sufficient truth in both these hard-nosed articles of faith to point to a future of endless conflict.
While asserting “Israel/Palestine has become a two-nation state”, her call for one person one vote – atomising everyone down to the level of the individual – would deny collective rights to both nations. The unitary state concept may be popular in some western circles, but a sustainable solution can only come from the inside-out, not the outside-in.
