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There won't be a two state solution if Israel doesn't have an iron clad guarantee it gets an absolute end to violence afterwards, any solution that relies on peacekeepers is a non starter from Israel's point of view, the country is about an hours drive from, to use the phrase, the River to the sea, that is way way to small a land base to give up security on the off chance things might calm down in 30 or 40 years time.

And the reality is there will be no guarantee, the Palestine political class, be it PLO or Hamas relies on the conflict for their power, if there is one lesson you can learn from N Ireland its that the IRA only agreed to take part in the peace process when the Catholic population utterly rejected them and it was clear they had lost the support of their own people, they had no choice but to lay their arms down because the population was sick of war and their had been a particularly heinous killing of two kids due to badly planned bombings in England, it spawned the mothers marches and the song Zombie, it utterly cut the support out from under the IRA from a population that was fed up with living in a war anyway, if they could have carried on making a very good living from violence the IRA and UDA would have, what we all have to remember is the best paid job in Derry and Gaza was and is being the commander of freedom fighters