Why there is no two-state solution

The original idea of a two-state solution for the Arab-Israel conflict was to create "two states for two peoples". Specifically, there would be Israel for Jews, and a new "Palestine" for Arabs. Today, more than a quarter-century later, only one of these two-state exists--Israel. "Palestine" has been stillborn.

Why?

One reason--perhaps the main reason--could be an impediment few are willing to recognize or discuss or debate. That impediment has a name, one which has never been spoken. That impediment is called, the "eliminationist narrative".

An eliminationist narrative is a "story (or vision)" whose purpose is to help eliminate some person or group. The strategy of such a narrative is simple. First, the narrative demonizes the object to be eliminated. Next, it delegitimizes that object. Then, it calls for the object's elimination--or, more precisely, for its destruction or cancellation or removal.

An eliminationist narrative weaponizes rumors and lies. That's the best way, it seems, to make an eliminationist narrative reality.   

In the US, former US President Donald Trump was the object of an "elimination narrative". So was the 'Tea Party' of the early 2000s (here).

With both Trump and the Tea Party, the chosen eliminationist strategy had its intended effect. Both lost their position on America's political stage. Both were effectively "cancelled". The eliminationist narrative used against them worked.

Israel is also a target of an eliminationist narrative. It, too, is targeted for elimination.

You can see how the Palestinian eliminationist strategy works against Israel by following how the "Palestinian narrative" is implemented by both Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and by the Authority's 'friends' across the world.  

These individuals (and entities) energize the Palestinian narrative through anti-Israel speeches, public pronouncements and diplomatic strategies aimed against Israel. Each works to forward the ultimate goal of the Palestinian eliminationist narrative. 

To begin with, Palestinians work to eliminate Jews from Israel and from Israel's holy sites. They do this by proclaiming, for example, that the Temple Mount is Muslim only. They proclaim that Jews have no rights to the Temple Mount. They declare that the Temple Mount is for Muslims only. They pursue diplomatic strategies that have made the Temple Mount officially an Islamic site exclusively. The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is severed. 

Palestinians call for riots to defend the Temple Mount against Jews. They call for all-out war against Jews and/or Israel to "defend' the Temple Mount--against Jewish 'defilement'.

These actions against Jews, the Temple Mount and the Jewish Jerusalem are only the tip of a very deep anti-Israel iceberg. The rest of that iceberg focuses exclusively on Israel's very existence.

The Palestinian Narrative is supposed to be the embodiment of what Palestinians call their Palestinian "national struggle". But this Palestinian "national struggle" is not a struggle for something (like statehood). It is the "struggle" against something (namely, Israel).

The "Palestinian Cause" is not a struggle to create a free and independent State. Yes--according to many pro-Palestinians--the "Cause" was supposed to have been about a 'national Palestinian liberation' in order to establish a State (here). But now, many believe that that goal had actually been  abandoned years ago (ibid).

Some pro-Palestinian advocates now assume that the "Palestinian Cause" is specifically about the struggle against Israel (here). The goal of this struggle is simple: to erase Israel, and to replace Israel with an Arab-Muslim state. 

The "Palestinian Cause" is now an eliminationist 'narrative'. It "struggles", yes. But only to eliminate the Jewish State--and all things Jewish about the Middle East.

We know this "eliminationist" approach to Israel is true because we have repeatedly seen maps of the to-be-created-Palestinian state. Those maps all present the same vision. 

You see, the map of the new, wannabee 'Palestine' exactly matches the map of the existing State of Israel. This means that the wannabee 'Palestine' wants to replace Israel on the map.

This is no accident. Don't take my word for it. Do a google search (as of October 14, 2021): first, search for "the official map of the state of Israel". Look at the map of Israel. 

Then, second, do another search for "the official map of the state of Palestine". Look at the map of "Palestine". 

Compare the two maps. They are identical. Exactly the same. The meaning of this similarity is, the new Arab-Muslim Palestine will, when created, erase Israel from the map of the Middle East--and from the map of the world.

The Palestinian eliminationist narrative is an "eliminationist roadblock". No desire for "two states" for Jew and Arab can ever get over or around this roadblock. It is permanent.

If you want a real two-state solution in the Middle East, you must first deal with this roadblock. But no one cares to do that. it's too complicated. It seems insurmountable. 

This is the reason there is no two-state solution: the Palestinian narrative does not speak about peace with Israel--or about living side-by-side with Israel. Instead, it speaks repeatedly and exclusively about replacing Israel. 

That is why there is no two-state solution.