Concerning your editorial of 8 March 2008, “Talk, but No Peace”
It is becoming increasingly frustrating to hear about the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from your newspaper. The viability of this has been dead for some time. Very few serious analysts, journalists and even officials of the UN believe this is possible. Speak to politicians off record and you will often hear the same. If there is any kind of wish for a two-state solution, Israel prime minister, Ehud Olmert, would forbid further development of settlements in West Bank and rather look at possible trade agreements and resource sharing with the PA. With such a number of settlements, criss-crossing of roads, plotting and division of land according to the Oslo agreements 1993, the West Bank is a very divided territory. If the two-state solution was a serious proposition from either party, Mr. Olmert and Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, would have very different issues on the table. Stop talking about the possibility of a two state solution; the facts, and the facts on the ground, do not make this possible. You know better.
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