ISRAEL-PALESTINE

Haaretz: Cry, the beloved two-state solution

As negotiations with the Palestinians lurch forward and the separation wall snakes its way through the West Bank, two veteran leftists have reached a startling conclusion: There cannot be two states for two peoples in this land.

1. The groundwater

Meron Benvenisti and Haim Hanegbi did not exchange views.
Benvenisti lives in Jerusalem, on the edge of the desert, and
is trying to write a last book, a summing up. Hanegbi lives in
Ramat Aviv, not far from the sea, and is trying to formulate
a last, definitive, manifesto. Yet this summer both Benvenisti and Hanegbi reached an intriguing point in their conceptual development. They both reached
the conclusion that there is no longer any prospect of ending the conflict by means of a
two-state solution.

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