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In Paris next Sunday, 70 countries will meet to determine how to convince Israel to accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Good question, but there’s a better one. Why would anyone think the Palestinians would ever accept a two-state solution? Ever?

Among those with even a rudimentary knowledge about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, only the deluded could believe that Palestinians would willingly accept a Jewish state as a neighbour.

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In 1937, the British, then the rulers of Palestine, proposed a partition of the land into a Jewish and an Arab state. As recommended by the Palestine Royal Commission Report, the Palestinian Arabs would get the larger share of the territory, and their land would all be contiguous, unlike the smaller Jewish territory, which would be divided into two pieces. The Arab state would also receive a grant of £2 million from the British treasury as well as a grant from the Jewish state. The League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations, would guarantee the borders, and also guarantee that Jews would never control the holy sites.