A failure waiting to happen

UK urges US 'decisive' lead on Mid-East

This is not a problem just waiting for the healing touch of an American president.

The two-state solution is long out of reach and really was never acceptable to enough important players on the Arab or the Israeli side.

As for a one-state solution, well, the Palestinians and Israelis have opposite one-state solutions in mind, and neither one has anything to do with that idea according to post-nationalist, secularist American and European liberals.

There simply is no middle ground on which the two sides can meet and there never has been.

The idea that a slice of Palestine taken from the Arabs against their well-known and well-entrenched public will by an international body cooked up by the great powers and serving as their cat’s-paw could provide the Jews a safe haven in a dangerous world was absolutely idiotic and doomed from the beginning.

As a great many people said.

Truman was not a man to listen.

Do you really think UN recognition of a Palestinian state encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza strip, and East Jerusalem - and how is that even possible against a US veto? - could bring peace?

Sure, just as the UN recognition of Israel in 1948 has brought peace.