17 Oct 2026 · @Hannan Lis The idea that keeps coming backIn my last piece I argued that the two-state solution cannot answer one question: what happens in year five, when a sovereign Palestinian state holds an election and Hamas wins. A deal strong enough to survive that is not a state. A state real enough to be called one cannot survive it. There is one model that answers the question. It is older than Oslo, it has been proposed by a king, rejected by everyone, and revived i

17 Oct 2026 · @Hannan Lis The question nobody asksEvery plan for a Palestinian state answers the same questions. Borders. Jerusalem. Refugees. Settlements. None of them answers the one that decides whether the deal lives: who signs it, and what happens when the signer loses. Run the thought experiment honestly. Israel agrees. A Palestinian state is declared between the Jordan River and the 1967 line, with land swaps, a capital in East Jerusalem, international guarantees, the