TheAltWorld The Two-State Solution Is A Western Liberal Fairy Tale
The only real benefit to this latest western “recognition” of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians to explain to western liberals in plain English that the entire state of Israel stands opposed to their vision of a two-state solution.
Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz has a new op-ed in The New York Times where he explicitly states that opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state is “the heart” of a national consensus among Israelis across the mainstream political spectrum, and that this isn’t an obstacle that will go away once Netanyahu is out of power.
“Too often, Western leaders view our policies in this war not through the lens of national security, but through the prism of individuals — and, in particular, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,” Gantz writes. “The conversation is often framed as a question of what serves the prime minister, as if Israel’s national security begins and ends with one man. This view is mistaken and counterproductive to global stability, regional normalization and Israel’s own security.”
“I myself have been a vocal critic of Mr. Netanyahu,” says Gantz. “But the nation’s core security interests are not partisan property. Today more than ever, they are anchored by a national consensus that is rooted in the hard realities of our region. Opposition to the recognition of Palestinian statehood stands at the heart of that consensus.”
He’s spelling it out in black and white. The Bernie Sanders-style framing of the nightmare in Palestine as a Netanyahu problem which can be remedied in short order by a two-state solution is a fairy tale that western liberals tell each other so they don’t have to face the cold hard reality that the problem is the state of Israel itself.
This comes after Netanyahu publicly stated that “There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River,” and after former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant proclaimed that “There will never be a Palestinian state.”
Israel is the problem. Not Netanyahu. Not Hamas. Not that both sides have tragically failed to sit down and find common ground in good-faith negotiations. The problem is that the west established a state in the middle east which holds as its foundational ideology that the people who were living there before that state was created are less than human, and must never have access to the full spectrum of human rights.
The problem is Israel. A state which has always been a racist endeavor from its very inception. A state whose Jewish citizenry are indoctrinated from birth into accepting the hateful, supremacist worldview that is necessary for apartheid and abuse to be accepted as the status quo.
It’s so surreal how Israel can come right out and explicitly say there will never, ever be a Palestinian state and western officials will just keep babbling on about the possibility of Israel and Palestine negotiating a two-state solution as though it never happened. https://t.co/fdocleFU1D
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) September 23, 2025
No solutions are going to emerge until the west gets real about this. As long as western liberals are still buying into the fuzzbrained escapist fantasy that Israel is just an election away from a two-state solution if the US simply keeps funding the Iron Dome and making nice with Tel Aviv, we’re going to continue seeing Israel inflicting the nonstop violence and abuse that is necessary for it to exist in its present iteration as a state.
Any actual, reality-based solutions are not going to make liberal Zionists happy like their daydream about a two-state solution does. Israel simply cannot continue to exist as a Zionist entity. It needs to be disarmed, dramatically restructured, and comprehensively denazified as a society. This isn’t going to happen without force, and that necessary force isn’t going to be forthcoming from the western world as long as we are deluding ourselves with infantile fantasies.
The Israelis are telling us this is the case themselves, right to our faces. It’s time to wake up.
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-two-state-solution-is-a-western
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The US are becoming a pariah but people are slow to realize that. Many people cancel planed trips to the US because of support for the genocide and other monstrosities of the regime.
As for what they call “israel”, it is grilled, gazed beyond recognition, and burnt like an old cigarette butt to ashtray standards if I may dare this holocaustic fable metaphor.
How come that a tribe who was living in their Pales of Settlements and ghettoes, and out of some historical tricks managed to escape and were allowed in civilized societies, have ended-up on a much smaller ghetto and pale of settlement surrounded by millions of people who hate them for good reasons who are waiting patiently for the right moment to fall on them and exert the biggest pogrom in the history of jewishkind?
As a matter of fact, little “israel” is surrounded, they even build walls around their self-inflicted ghetto, doing typically what Jews always did in our European lands: insulating themselves from the rest of us. Or rather, we insulated ourselves from their mischief.
Now they stole the land of Palestinians and have re-created the ghettos that we once designed for them.
Nowadays, very few countries would want to welcome “israelis”, so being the pariahs they are, they are condemned to either stay in occupied Palestine in their tiny ghetto or spend time abroad in countries where they won’t be beaten up, stabbed, shot, lynched, spat on, despised or insulted.
It leaves very few countries, maybe the US but not even everywhere there, not in most European countries (where many zionists come from), certainly not in any real Muslim country, most likely not in South and central America except perhaps Argentina (if they stay close to the presidential palace), not in Africa for good reason maybe in Asia where holocaust stories interest few people, although few “israeli” tourists already got beaten in Nepal, Thailand and other countries.
It seems that the zionists have succeeded where Hitler have failed: make the world understand who the Jews really are and what their goals are.
The zionists also succeeded in building for themselves a big concentration camp where they are a pretty easy target for, this time, a real holocaust.
And they think they are smart.