Mike Butler: Why the ‘two-state solution’ won’t fly

Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ recital of the “two-state solution” mantra while joining with Britain, Canada, Australia, and Norway in placing a travel ban on two Israeli Ministers ignores history.

Peters recited that mantra while saying that the Israeli ministers “severely and deliberately undermined that [the two state solution] by personally advocating for the annexation of Palestinian land and the expansion of illegal settlements, while inciting violence and forced displacement”. (1)

The two Israelis involved are National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.