{"id":389777,"date":"2018-12-19T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-publics-backing-for-one-state-solution-falls-on-deaf-ears\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T21:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:10:30","slug":"american-publics-backing-for-one-state-solution-falls-on-deaf-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-publics-backing-for-one-state-solution-falls-on-deaf-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"American Public\u2019s Backing for One-State Solution Falls on Deaf Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect \u2013 and in ways that will please neither of them.<\/p>\n<p>The American public is now evenly split between those who want a two-state solution and those who prefer a single state, shared by Israelis and Palestinians, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sadat.umd.edu\/sites\/sadat.umd.edu\/files\/UMCIP%20Questionnaire%20Sep%20to%20Oct%202018.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0jx6GuX3zdbDF-FHR6crghHIZ_hSFlu5crgLDYMSeYrA238-MZL1b4Gxo\">survey<\/a>\u00a0published last week by the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>And if a Palestinian state is off the table \u2013 as a growing number of analysts of the region conclude, given Israel\u2019s intransigence and the endless postponement of Mr Trump\u2019s peace plan \u2013 then support for one state rises steeply, to nearly two-thirds of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Netanyahu cannot take comfort from the thought that ordinary Americans share his vision of a single state of Greater Israel. Respondents demand a one-state solution guaranteeing Israelis and Palestinians equal rights.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, only 17 per cent of Americans expressing a view \u2013 presumably Christian evangelicals and hardline Jewish advocates for Israel \u2013 prefer the approach of Israel\u2019s governing parties: either to continue the occupation or annex Palestinian areas without offering the inhabitants citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is occurring even though US politicians and the media express no support for a one-state solution. In fact, quite the reverse.<\/p>\n<p>The movement to boycott Israel, known as BDS, is growing on US campuses, but vilified by Washington officials, who claim its goal is to end&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/19\/american-publics-backing-for-one-state-solution-falls-on-deaf-ears\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect \u2013 and in ways that will please neither of them. The American public is now evenly split between those who want a two-state solution and those who prefer a single state, shared by Israelis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}