As Israel's settlement policy destroys the chance for a two-state solution, so too does it destroy the chance for peace. Internationally renowned author and journalist Robert Fisk decries the world for letting it happen.
Both the United States and Europe now stand idly by while the Israeli government effectively destroys any hope of a Palestinian state; even as you read these words, Israel's bulldozers and demolition orders are destroying the last chance of peace; not only in the symbolic centre of Jerusalem itself but – strategically, far more important – in 60 per cent of the vast, biblical lands of the occupied West Bank, in that largest sector in which Jews now outnumber Muslims two to one...
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