The two state solution: an idea whose time has come?

An Israeli tank on the border with Gaza, 26th February 2024 (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images) The foreign ministers of the G20 group, made up of the world’s largest economies, including China and Russia, agree on very little these days. But when they met on 22 February there was, as the Brazilian host put it, ‘virtual unanimity in the two-state solution as the only solution to the [Arab-Palestinian] conflict.’ On this, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reported a ‘commonality’, w