The 'two-state' solution for Israel and Palestinians is sputtering. Yet the EU keeps pumping more money into a unit established to help Palestinians prepare for independence, an extreme example of the West’s willingness to keep funding the moribund dream.
also underscore the limits of international efforts to contain the conflict.
“There is no other solution. Everything else is almost inevitably a prescription for disaster,” Olmert said. Without partition, the default is an apartheid-like reality in which a shrinking Jewish minority controls a growing Arab majority with few political rights. Leading rights groups saySince the Oslo accords 30 years ago, the U.S. and EU have spent billions of dollars on development projects and direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to promote the two-state vision. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both pledged support for a partition deal.
Recent opinion polls show that only about one-third of Israelis and Palestinians still favor a two-state solution. Ines Abdel-Razek, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, an advocacy group, said calls for a two-state solution are “comfortable” for the international community, but insincere.
The unit was set up after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. The border monitors helped the Palestinian Authority run the territory’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, while coordinating with Israel. It had 130 workers and helped some 2,700 people cross the border each day.
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