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No appetite on either side for a two state solution right now

Not that there ever was one on the palestinian side. Here's a history of Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity:

Arabs calling themselves “Palestinians” have refused two-state proposals multiple times, starting with the Peel Commission in 1937. Here’s a list of Palestinian Arab refusals, going back more than a century now.

1919: Arabs of Palestine refused to nominate representatives to the Paris Peace Conference.

1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.

1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.

1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.

1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.

1946: Anglo-American Commission proposal, rejected by the Arabs of Palestine.

1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected by the Arab League and the Higher Arab Committee for Palestine.

1949: Israel's outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected by the Arab League and the Higher Arab committee for Palestine.

1967: Israel's outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected by the Arab League and the PLO.

1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt) by the rest of the Arab world, including the PLO.

1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt and Jordan).

1995: Rabin's Contour-for-Peace, rejected by the Palestinian Authority.

2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected by Yasser Arafat, who then initiated the preplanned second intifada.

2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected by the Palestinian Authority.

2005: Sharon's peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected by the Hamas takeover in 2007.

2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected by Mahmoud Abbas.

2009 to present: Netanyahu's repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.

2014: Kerry's Contour-for-Peace, rejected by the Palestinian Authority.

2018: Trump’s “deal of the Century,” rejected in advance by Mahmoud Abbas.

2019: US Conference on Economic Benefit for the Palestinians, rejected by the Palestinian Authority.

2020: PA reiterates rejection of Trump’s “Deal of the Century” before it’s even presented.

2020: PA attempts (and fails) to pass an Arab League resolution to sanction the UAE and Bahrain for signing the Abraham Agreements with Israel.

Now with a history like this, why do you think that it’s Israel that doesn’t want peace?

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