https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23207299\/israel-palestine-settlements-chart-two-state-biden-visit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Severe setbacks for the two-state solution have made US policy seem far-fetched at this point.<\/p>\n
That reality came across in Biden\u2019s remarks. \u201cWe\u2019ll discuss my continued support \u2014 even though I know it\u2019s not in the near term \u2014 a two-state solution,\u201d he said upon his arrival this week. He conceded that such an outcome was elusive, while still clinging to it.<\/p>\n
A number of factors have contributed to the declining prospects for an independent Palestinian state. Not enough US diplomatic muscle has been put into making the deal happen. The recently disbanded Israeli government didn\u2019t even agree to it as policy (and the previous prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu didn\u2019t really, either). Divisions between the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza have detracted from the Palestine Liberation Organization\u2019s authority and legitimacy as a negotiating partner. And wealthy Arab states, like the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, have prioritized normalizing relationships with Israel \u2014 which come with economic and tech cooperation, defense business, and weapons sales \u2014 at the expense of Palestinian rights.<\/p>\n
But the largest by far is the rampant expansion of settlements in the West Bank that has precluded Palestinians from living there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,272,355,314,194,391,389,108,619,158],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8719,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}