The next question is really, really fundamental to this conflict, to understanding this place.

Why has a two-state solution been so difficult to achieve?

You got two peoples that kind of stuck here.

Nobody's getting rid of anybody.

Why won't they just separate, make that deal? What other deal is there?

Who's even articulating an alternative? The simple answer is that this is not a conflict about borders.

It is fundamentally at its heart, at its core, a conflict about stories, and not just about each

side story of themselves, but about each side story of the other side. I want to suggest that

there are two answers on each side. There's an answer on the Palestinian side. There's an answer

on the Israeli side. I'm not going to encompass the totality of this question. There's a lot of

history. A lot of it is contentious. The basic debates between Israelis and Palestinians are

about this question.

What went wrong?

What has gotten in the way time after time after time?

On the Palestinian side, the best way to understand why Palestinians have not been able

to produce a two-state solution, why Palestinian leadership hasn't been able to actually sign on the

dotted line? Why no Palestinian leadership, for example, has ever given up on a mass right of return,

not into the new state of Palestine in a final agreement, but into the state of Israel,

just a total mass right of return of millions of people into the other state and the two-state solution. In other words,

why has no leadership of Palestinians ever accepted that there would be two states for two peoples?

Not one state of Palestinian state and the other state, a universal civic democracy for everybody,

that demographically will soon be a Palestinian state as well. But in fact, a Jewish state alongside a

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