For years, virtually all attention has been focused on the question of a future Palestinian state, its borders and powers. As Israelis make plain by talking about the imperative of a Jewish state, and as Palestinians highlight when they evoke the refugees’ rights, the heart of the matter is not necessarily how to define a state of Palestine. It is, as in a sense it always has been, how to define the state of Israel.
via Op-Ed Contributors – The Two-State Solution Doesn’t Solve Anything – NYTimes.com.







but they don't actually take a stand themselves, in the end