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Who Favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict? President Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former President George W. Bush, who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final days in office. The Democratic Party's national platform endorses a two-state solution; the Republican platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed its support a few days ago. The European Union is strongly in favor as well -- so strongly that the EU's foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, has been...

By what reasoning has the administration decided that pushing Israel to permit a new Palestinian state would -- in any way -- diminish the threat from Iran? Do they believe that Iran's (or I should say the Iranian leadership's) genocidal hostility toward Israel is the result of lack of progress toward an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza? … President Obama has sent abundant signals that his foreign policy is 50 percent wishful thinking and 50 percent leftwing mush. There may not be any easy answers to the problem of a nuclear Iran. But pressuring Israel to...

(IsraelNN.com) More than 100 people took part in a rally Thursday evening calling on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reject a "two-state solution". More such events are slated, here and in the United States, as Netanyahu is leaving for his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday. The demonstration, which took place across from the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, was called to Daniella Weiss said the coming Netanyahu-Obama meeting is "fateful". Encourage Netanyhau to reject American pressure to agree to a new Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Among the dozens of demonstrators were Knesset...