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Why Biden still seeks two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The contrast is jarring: between an inexorably escalating war in Gaza, and the almost mantralike declarations by U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders promoting their diplomatic vision of a postwar Middle East.

Especially since that vision – the “two-state solution,” with Israel and a Palestinian state living side by side in security, dignity, freedom, and peace – has been attempted without success ever since the establishment of the state of Israel in the 1948.

And now, due to the brutal Hamas attacks of

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