Is a Palestinian State Still Unrealistic?

Middle East Analyst Dr. Ariel Ben-Solomon says a Palestinian state is not going to happen because Israel won’t let it happen.

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00:00Ariel, what's your take on it?

00:03Steps towards a two-state solution have failed in the past.

00:06How does Israel view this current diplomatic push

00:09as being different this time around?

00:11Well, first of all, I would like to counter the claims of genocide

00:15that the previous commentator made.

00:20It's obvious to anyone who has seen a real genocide in the world,

00:25you know, in the Holocaust and in what's going on in Syria

00:27with hundreds of thousands being murdered.

00:30That what's happening in Gaza is a different kind of operation.

00:33And from the Israeli perspective, there is absolutely,

00:37only on the fringes there is any acceptance of a Palestinian state.

00:43So the vast majority of the public in Israel is totally against it,

00:48especially since October 7th.

00:50You could make a case before October 7th there was maybe, you know,

00:54a slightly more support, but now it's very low.

00:57Only the fringe parties, you know, Merit and the far-left parties are supporting it.

01:03And even the left-wing parties in Israel are now against the Palestinian state.

01:08And most importantly, Trump is also against the Palestinian state.

01:12So I don't see that it's even realistic to talk about it.

01:17It's just more kind of the commentators on TV, like us, talking about it,

01:22and the French president and others with little influence what's going on.

01:26So it really doesn't matter what everyone's talking about.

01:30The Palestinian state is not going to happen.

01:32Israel won't let it happen.

01:33The U.S. is not going to let it happen.

01:34And so that's basically the viewpoint from Israel.

01:38The U.S. is not going to let it happen.