Growing US public support for one state shared equally by Israelis and Palestinians falls on deaf ears
NOVANEWS
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Two years of Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them.
The American public is now evenly split between those who want a two-state solution and those who prefer a single state, shared by Israelis and Palestinians, according to a survey published last week by the University of Maryland.
And if a Palestinian state is off the table – as a growing number of analysts of the region conclude, given Israel’s intransigence and the endless postponement of Trump’s peace plan – then support for one state rises steeply, to nearly two-thirds of Americans.
But Netanyahu cannot take comfort from the thought that ordinary Americans share his vision ...