The two-state solution needs saving from Hotovely
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, December 14, 2023
ISRAEL’S ambassador to Britain, hard-right politician Tzipi Hotovely, has said it out loud.
Israel will never, she told Sky News, accept a two-state solution to the crisis in Palestine. That is an embarrassingly blunt admission for the US and British governments, which continue to rhetorically advocate the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Hotovely is hardly an outlier. Israeli sovereignty over the entire territory of historic Palestine is a dogma for the Netanyahu government and the revisionist zionist tradition in which it is rooted.
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