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JERUSALEM - Conventional wisdom on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has long held that Israel should relinquish most of the lands it occupied in 1967 in favor of a Palestinian state - the "two- state solution" that much of the world has supported for years.
But the utter lack of progress in peace talks and continued Jewish settlement in the West Bank has many people warning that Israel might instead be headed toward a one-state reality, with a permanent occupation of the West Bank and a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority - unless perhaps the world forces it to give the Palestinians the right to vote.See the full content of this document
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Palestinians Doubtful About a Two-State Future
"If Israel continues with these measures that it is employing today, the possibility of a two-state solution becomes very slim, if any," Mohammed Ishtayeh, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Sunday. "In the long run Israel is in the losing track. The Israeli leadership today is...
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