‘Oslo-style’ two-state solution is dead: Scholar

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Menachem Klein, a professor emeritus of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, has said that countries recognising Palestinian statehood must elucidate what a modern two-state solution would actually look like.

“I think an Oslo-style two-state solution is dead. There’s no way to revive it,” he said, referring to the 1993 accords that set a pathway to a future Palestinian state, based on the gradual withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory.

“So all the countries, entities, organisations speaking about a two-state solution must reconsider their vision and say what kind of two-state solution they mean that is relevant to the changing realities on the ground with the expansion of Israeli settlements and the lessons learned from the failure of the Oslo agreement,” he said.

“But no one in the West, no one speaking of the two-state solution, comes up with a concrete plan, with a concrete idea,” he said.

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