Middle East & Africa | The day after

Is a two-state solution possible after the Gaza war?

Joe Biden is calling for a new peace process

The Western Wall, Jerusalem, with the Dome of the Rock behind
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In trying to plan for the future, world leaders are looking to the past. “When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view it has to be a two-state solution,” said Joe Biden, America’s president, in one of his many public statements about the nearly month-long war in Gaza. Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, has made similar comments; so has Emmanuel Macron, the French president. An emergency meeting of the Arab League last month ended with a call for “serious negotiations” towards a two-state solution.

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This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Still out of reach”

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