Is A Two-State Solution Still Possible?

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00:00Is the two-state solution dead? And I also want you to circle back to this Board of Peace.

00:07Would the PA support the Board of Peace? Does it support the Board of Peace,

00:11regardless of whether or not it has a seat at the table?

00:15The PA supports the Trump plan, and we supported the UN Security Council calling for implementing it.

00:24We believe Mr. Trump wants to see peace achieved in the Middle East,

00:28and we know that he aspires to achieve, to widen the Abraham Accords.

00:35And for that to happen, it takes for Israel to recognize Palestine.

00:39This will happen. Maybe not in my lifetime, but I hope it will.

00:44The Palestinian state is a reality.

00:46The institution building in the Palestinian Authority is a reality that is visible for the eyes of everyone who can visit this place.

00:54We know Israel is doing its best to weaken the Palestinian Authority.

00:58And sometimes to destroy it.

01:01And while Israel gave money to Hamas, Israel is still withholding the tax revenues that belong to the Palestinian government,

01:08which constitutes 65 percent of the monthly budget of the Palestinian Authority.

01:14Okay, we're almost out of time, Rowan, so I'm going to let Jamal finish,

01:17and then I'm going to hand it to Ksenia, or else we're going to run out of time.

01:20You started your show, you started your contribution, Rowan, by criticizing us for equating Hamas with Israel,

01:28and now you're acting like an Israeli spokesman, a spokesman of the Israeli government,

01:32who believes that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and not of Palestine.

01:35Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.

01:37The state of Palestine will be born.

01:39I know this because I know how persistent the Palestinian population is.

01:43I'm now in the city of Jenin, and I grew up in Jenin under curfew.

01:48The city is sometimes under curfew, but the people are here.

01:52I came from Jordan just a week ago, and I see the number of the Palestinian people who come back

01:57is more than the number of the people who want to leave the place,

02:01although the border crossing to Jordan is open.

02:03So the willingness to stay here is very big because this is the land where we're born,

02:09and this is the land where we want to be, and this is the land where we aspire to be free,

02:13and we will be free, even if you don't want us to be.