The Two-State Solution is dead! Long live the Two-State Solution! Despite its failure to bring peace to historic Palestine, “from the river to the sea,” the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has once again become a rallying cry for peace among observers of the conflict. But the reality is, the two-state solution has not worked, and neither Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, nor the Netanyahu government has expressed any current interest in reviving it. Despite the partition of historic Palestine in 1948, there have never been two independent, functioning states within that land. Today it is perhaps unpleasant, but more accurate, to think of Israel and the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank as a de facto single apartheid state, as Foreign Affairs labeled it earlier this year. If the two-state solution is moribund, and if a single state of control exists on the ground and in the minds of Israelis and Pales...