Mr Khan said:
This establishes a baseline: Palestine exists as a state entity. Thereby it would be very intolerable if Israel destroyed that entity (as they are attempting with this E1 settlement deal). This means that the two-state solution is already one third there; all we need is a legitimate, democratic Palestine, and defined territory. |
... and how does this help Israel meet their needs to have a peaceful neighbour?
There could have been a path towards this presented where Palistine achieved status by being able to demonstrate that they were able to provide the most basic of government and stop the launching of rockets into Israel, but (for some reason) asking the Palistinians to act like a state of laws is unimportant.
I could be wrong but I suspect that in Israel people are now far more likely to believe that there is no peaceful process that will end with acceptable terms, and Palistinian terrorists are emboldened because their violence is winning over the world, and we're one step closer to a bad end to this.
