Another thoughtful article from Alon Ben-Meir.

I agree that a two-state solution looks the only way to resolve this conflict in the long term. But the idea that Penny Wong and others seem to be promulgating is that if the rest of the world recognises both Israel and a Palestinian “state”, that will solve the problem. It won’t. Palestine at the moment looks nothing like a “state”, and it will take more than wishful thinking to make it one. Even if something like a state emerges from the ashes of the current conflict, unless Israel and Palestine agree to peacefully coexist, Palestinian statehood could lock in perpetual conflict for more generations to come. Mutual recognition is essential. Without it, we may get two states, but there will be no solution.

The problem is that the cause is religion.
Right from the beginning Mohammad or however was the starter of this
religion, had a hard time trying to convert the Jews.
According to some sources, before Mohammad started Islam and he was a
desert brigand he had battles with Jewish villages.
So the Koran as it later became was biassed against the Jews.
Many verses accuse the Jews of all sorts of nastiness.
So it goes for the last 1400 years.
Such is learnt with their mother's milk.
So Mohammad sent his Islamic army up into Mesopotamia where the Jews
and others lived and they conquered the area as well as Nth Africa
Persia and India.
Since then other armies went through the area such as the Romans.
The Romans also had a lot of trouble with the Jews in Israel.
The upshot is that the two state idea is dead in the water.
Firstly because Islamists believe that land once held by moslems
remains Islamic land forever. As a result land once held by moslems
can never be sold or given up to non-moslems.
Islam believes Israel must be removed and all Jews put to death.
And that is the crux of the problem.
How do we resolve the problem ? Answer, we don't !
It is as simple as that !
In the meantime for our own sanity we need to impoverish Iran.
A few bombs in the Iranian oilfields will do that with little loss of life.
Withe little money available Iranian armies abroad will die on the vine.