“Canada’s position is crystal clear,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this past January. “We believe the only way forward for the region, indeed the only way forward for a safe and secure Israel, is to have a Palestinian state that is also safe and secure with internationally recognized borders. We believe in a two-state solution.”
Prompted by the calamitous events in Gaza and Israel since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, this position has been echoed by many world leaders, including US president Joe Biden and United Nations secretary-general António Guterres. Yet Western interests have pushed, unsuccessfully, the idea of two states for two peoples—one Jewish, one Palestinian—for more than seventy-five years. It’s not clear this time will be any different.
