That two state solution just around the corner – NOT. Never was.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/violence-in-gaza-today-captures-the-attention-of-no-one/

By GEOFFREY ARONSON

More than 1,400 have been wounded in clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli military. The media has barely noticed…

Gaza today is a prison, bound to its north by Israel and its south and east by Egypt, both of which for their own reasons are conspiring to continue its penury and isolation. To the west lies the Mediterranean, deceptively open but just as impenetrable. In a faraway time Gaza was once an entrepot—a thriving seaport on the Mediterranean linking the west with the Arab heartland to the east. Its location along the hotly contested Mediterranean coast, where an abundance of natural gas has recently been discovered, is a cruel reminder of what Gaza—which the World Bank warns will be uninhabitable by 2020 if current policies continue—could be. Read the rest of this entry »