Viewpoints
[Ian Shapiro, Nicholas Strong] Beyond the solution between Palestine and Israel
March 7, 2016
As the turmoil in the Middle East worsens, the fate of the Palestinians seems to have been put on the diplomatic back burner. Indeed, the two-state solution has been on life-support since Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s heroic efforts to revive it. Many in the region, and elsewhere, now believe that it is dead. But that raises a new problem. With statehood seemingly out of reach, it will be only a matter of time before large numbers o