Key Hezbollah leader killed in strike, Israeli military says

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58. To me, at least...

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...whether the majority of Israelis want a two-state solution is irrelevant.

We can maintain the status quo, with millions of Palestinian Arabs living under occupation and denied full participation as Israeli citizens. (Or Israel can formally annex Gaza and the West Bank, which would shift the demographics of Israel to the point that it would hard for the country to declare itself both a democracy and a Jewish state. This assumes that Israel is unwilling to expel large numbers of civilians from those territories; I suspect the majority of Israeli people would oppose this, but I can't say that about the present Israeli government.)

Or a two-state solution can be found.

In no way do I think this is an easy thing to do. I fully understand the culpability of Hamas in the present situation, that there are groups in the region that want Israel itself destroyed, and that a large proportion of the Israeli population within the UN-recognized borders is uninterested in a two-state solution. But a two-state solution should still be the ultimate goal from the standpoint of human rights.