When it comes to the conflict between Israel and "Palestinians", the liberal consensus is that a "Two State Solution" is the best way forward. However, I was pleased to read that there is a 23 State solution. This is from Steven Plaut... "I call it the 23-state solution. The Arabs get to keep the 22 states they already have and the Jews keep the one state they have. The Palestinians get no state. ...

For Melanie Phillips, the two-state solution to Israel/Palestine is the “final solution” for Jews. I can’t believe some people continue to take this woman seriously - she’s a hysterical windbag. And yet when some Muslims use the word “genocide” or “holocaust” to talk about what has happened to Palestinians, they are beyond the pale.

From the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah which, as we all know, unlike Hamas is the ‘moderate’ party which will deliver a two-state solution and peace with Israel: Therefore, it is high time that we found a final, comprehensive solution...With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will bec...

I see that renowned political scientist and erstwhile comedienne Roseanne Bar has come up with a solution for the Middle East... "I am going to move to israel and run for president there and win. When I am elected, I will make peace for my people and help to turn Israel into the socialist paradise that German and Russian Jews meant for it to be. I would first pay all the palestinians really well a...

Further to this post on the one-state solution: just one day after being offered a vision of a democratic and secular state in which the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis 'are equally protected', we learn from the Guardian that...

On a trip to Israel and the West Bank, Mick Hume sees the ‘two-state solution’ already leading to a new partition between Israelis and Palestinians.

"Britain is now at war with Germany. Consequently, so is Australia." So declared the Australian Prime Minister in 1939. How could he not have done? By contrast, there is no excuse whatever for "Israel is not attending some conference at which there might be the slightest criticism of Israel, consequently neither is the United States, neither is Australia (among others), and neither should Britain"...

A glimpse of the shape of things to come in this new Rasmussen poll... "Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel’s decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans. While 75% of Republicans sa...

Gordon Brown urged Israel to make key concessions to the Palestinians in speech to Knesset.

Now that the midterms are approaching their conclusion, the Obama Administration is stepping up pressure on Israel, as I predicted. The latest outrage? The US is pushing Israel to lease parts of Jerusalem from the 'Palestinians' - who don't own it! According to Asharq al-Awsat the US wants Israel to lease the Jerusalem neighborhoods of French Hill, Ramat Eshkol and other Jerusalem n...