Israel-Hamas ceasefire

The last thing Hamas wants is a ‘two-state solution’ that divides Palestine between Jewish state and an Arab one. Yet the carnage of the war and the shock to the global system have forced the old two-state idea back onto the table. If this is success, what would failure look like?

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 18, 2023 Biden urgently wants a permanent ceasefire. Netanyahu wants the war to continue in order to 'complete the elimination of Hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the State of Israel from Gaza.'Image courtesy of @POTUS

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 22, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—There are really three parties to the 'pause—nobody is officially using the word 'ceasefire'—that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of the three parties, Hamas and the United States, would very much like it to turn into...

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