


There is a definite disconnect between people’s hopes and aspirations on the ground and the international community of voices who have promoted a two-state solution political outcome for more than a quarter century. Yet the international community continues to voice hopes for a two-state solution. Surveys by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Israel Democracy Institute show only significant minorities in both populations in favor of a two- state solution. In 2023, consensus still does not exist among Palestinians, particularly Hamas and Islamic Jihad, among staunch supporters of the Israeli Likud Party and their affiliates that sharing of the land west of the Jordan River is either ideologically appropriate or geopolitically feasible. Since July 1937 when Great Britain first officially suggested two states, Palestinian Arabs, Arabs in surrounding countries and many Zionists opposed establishing two states for the two communities. JUN Partition Plan two states, November 1947įor more than 80 years, the idea of separating Jewish and Arab populations west of the Jordan River has been suggested as a way to reduce communal violence and hostility between the two national groupings.
