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The case for a one-state solution is stronger than ever
In light of the brutal onslaught on Gaza, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept a two-state solution, writes JOE GILL
A woman holds up a white flag to prevent being shot, as Palestinians flee Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din street in Bureij, November 7

RIGHT now the idea of a peace settlement and a Palestinian state seems absurd given the apocalypse unfolding in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and siege.

Recent editorials in the Morning Star and a feature article by Nick Wright have insisted that the two-state solution is the only viable road to a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Calls for a one-state solution, which some in the Palestinian liberation movement support, are dismissed.

Wright wrote last week: “Those who think a single state — assembled within the existing state apparatus of Israel and including the existing populations of Israel, Gaza, the occupied territory and the West Bank — would be a secular democratic state of equal rights have abandoned any materialist and Marxist conception of the state.”

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