Law of holes of Canadian style

But by shaking the box, so to speak, the USG has opened the potential for thinking outside it. Is a 'one-state' solution possible with Egypt annexing Gaza and Jordan the West Bank? Is a 'three-state solution' with Israel, Palestine, and Gaza as states possible? Will a new status quo emerge? And does it matter, i.e., has Washington learned anything about diplomatic 'holes?'

Does anyone remember Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan returning from a tour of Mali, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of Congo in September 2016? 'Canada is back' was the subtext. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID JONES

January 29, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After more than a generation of excavation in the Middle East, the United States government finally concluded that the hole it has been digging for the Israel-Palestine “two state solution” has no foreseeable “pot of gold” at the bottom. It was not for lack of U.S. diplom...

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