By now, in the context of Israel and Palestine, you will have heard the term “two-state solution” so many times that your brain has learnt to file it automatically in the meaningless basket.
In February, the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, voted in support of a resolution moved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, objecting to unilateral international recognition of a Palestinian state. The context was the political push in numerous countries to recognise Palestine as a break from the prevailing two-state position, which Netanyahu was anxious to head off.
That left the status quo ostensibly in place.
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