Bibi had endorsed the idea of a two-state solution. When I met him in his office in 2013, I asked if he was just humouring Obama, by committing himself to a two-state solution. Netanyahu smiled and replied, ‘Well, obviously I’m doing that.’ But the Israeli prime minister had then set out the conventional argument for why Israel needed to agree to a Palestinian state. The danger, he argued, was that if Israel incorporated 2.7 million Palestinians on the West Bank into the state of Israel, then the government might end up having to choose between being a Jewish state and being a democracy, since
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