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Top Palestinians: Two-state solution endangered
Source: Reuters
Top Palestinians: Two-state solution endangered
By Noah Browning
RAMALLAH, West Bank | Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:46am EDT
(Reuters) - A leading architect of Palestinian peace talks with Israel has drawn criticism from Palestinian officials by breaking with the notion of a 'two-state solution' that he said was being buried in the dust by Israeli bulldozers racing to build settlements.
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But a former chief negotiator for the Palestinians, Ahmed Qurei, has provoked controversy by suggesting that continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank meant it might now be impossible to fulfill the vision of independence.
"The idea of a two-state solution was being traded in the political marketplace before Israeli bulldozers raced against time to bury this project in the dust of vast settlement projects," Qurei wrote in the al-Quds newspaper at the weekend.
"The one state solution might be, despite all of its inherent conflicts and problems not particularly exclusive to it, one of the solutions that we would do well to consider," he wrote.
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By Noah Browning
RAMALLAH, West Bank | Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:46am EDT
(Reuters) - A leading architect of Palestinian peace talks with Israel has drawn criticism from Palestinian officials by breaking with the notion of a 'two-state solution' that he said was being buried in the dust by Israeli bulldozers racing to build settlements.
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But a former chief negotiator for the Palestinians, Ahmed Qurei, has provoked controversy by suggesting that continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank meant it might now be impossible to fulfill the vision of independence.
"The idea of a two-state solution was being traded in the political marketplace before Israeli bulldozers raced against time to bury this project in the dust of vast settlement projects," Qurei wrote in the al-Quds newspaper at the weekend.
"The one state solution might be, despite all of its inherent conflicts and problems not particularly exclusive to it, one of the solutions that we would do well to consider," he wrote.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/21/us-israel-palestine-peace-process-idUSBRE82K0O420120321
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