Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2020, pp. 17-19
ON DEC. 6, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution advocating the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Surprisingly, Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), her Muslim colleague Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the two other members of their “Squad” opposed the resolution. Tlaib explained, “This resolution…endorses an unrealistic, unattainable solution, one that Israel has made impossible.”
Tlaib’s statement may well have mystified her House colleagues. Why is the two-state solution unrealistic and unattainable, and how is Israel to blame for that? Most U.S. politicians are unaware that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are under the yoke of apartheid and that a Palestinian state is impossible as long as that is the case.
Read the whole article at: Tlaib’s statement may well have mystified her House colleagues. Why is the two-state solution unrealistic and unattainable, and how is Israel to blame for that? Most U.S. politicians are unaware that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are under the yoke of apartheid and that a Palestinian state is impossible as long as that is the case.