Will War Between Israel And Hamas End Hopes For Two-State Solution?
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
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Summary
For years, the idea of establishing a state for the Palestinian people and a state for the Israeli people has been a strategy that presidents - on both sides of the political aisle - have evoked as a framework for peace in the Middle East.
With the unprecedented violence playing out between Israel and Hamas for many political analysts, a peaceful, two-state agreement seems impossible.
But a little over two decades ago there was hope that it could be achieved.
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with ambassador Dennis Ross about how 23 years ago Palestinian leaders and Israel's prime minister came close to an agreement.
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| 0:47.6 | The death toll continues to rise in the war between Israel and Hamas. During his visit |
| 0:52.0 | to Tel Aviv this week, President Biden reiterated a desire for a peace between Israelis and |
| 0:57.2 | Palestinians. Let's keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both |
| 1:02.6 | live safely in security and dignity and peace for me. That means a two-state solution. |
| 1:10.0 | And any of Biden's predecessors in the White House on both sides of the aisle have sought |
| 1:14.2 | the same solution. Justice Israelis built a state in their homeland. Palestinians have |
| 1:20.8 | a right to be a free people in their own land. That's Barack Obama speaking in 2013 in Jerusalem. |
| 1:27.8 | The establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it. |
| 1:35.6 | And it will enhance the stability of the region and it will contribute to the security of the |
| 1:41.5 | people of Israel. And George W. Bush in 2008. 20 years before that in 1978, Jimmy Carter |
| 1:49.4 | broke her to a hard-fought agreement, normalizing the relationship between Israel and Egypt after three |
| 1:55.2 | decades of intense conflict and bloodshed between those two countries. The questions that have |
| 2:00.0 | brought warfare and bitterness to the Middle East for the last 30 years will not be settled overnight. |
| 2:10.3 | But we should all recognize the substantial achievements that have been made. |
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