[NotACop182]

I once believed a two state solution would be inevitable. Decades later and I have come to accept that the West Bank will be incorporated into Israel. If you see the maps over time the West Bank has been split into multiple small pockets of refugee sections. Without external pressures nothing will change and the politics on the issue have become toxic in the US.

Hopefully I’m wrong. But tides have shifted in the opposite direction.

[piva00]

I once believed it too, living through the news of the Oslo accords, seeing Yasser Arafat and Rabin shaking hands, it looked hopeful in the late 90s even with Rabin's assassination.

Then came the Camp David Summit, and Ariel Sharon going to Temple Mount... Finally what shattered that belief in me was watching "Checkpoint" by Yoav Shamir back around 2003-2004. The West Bank was already shattered in small pockets, the IDF was very aggressive against them, all of the hope I had carried was absolutely shattered when I saw how life in the West Bank really was for Palestinians.

It's an absolute shame what the extremists on both sides created, I don't see another figure like Rabin and Arafat existing in their nations for the next few decades, the cycle of violence got so much worse...

[whoitwas]

Why stop at West Bank? Looks like there's only one state remaining at this point.