No. of Recommendations: 6
I believe, or at least I still hope, that if a new more moderate government takes over, the public's turn to extremism can be gradually reversed. The alternative is bleak for Israel's survival.
I don't think it will ever be reversed. And there's not much all that support for a two-state solution on the left anymore, either. At least, it certainly seems like the mood has shifted towards a one-state solution being the only acceptable one - criticizing even the idea of keeping Israel configured as it is as an intolerable "ethnostate." If external pressure has moved away from partition, and the Israeli electorate has to choose between the status quo or a one-state solution with Right of Return, they'll never choose the latter.
Both outcomes are certainly bleak. But that's the choice that Israelis face - trying to find the least-bad among two bleak options.
Never say never. Israel lived with he prospect of eternal war until Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin said "no more war". Everything changed almost instantaneously. Such miracles are rare, but they are possible.
The current situation is a short sighted status quo when 50% of the people living in Israel/Palestine are Jews and 50% are Arabs. It is not sustainable with each group being at the other's throat forever.
