One of the settler movement’s key successes has been to create a fear of civil war if settlements are ever evacuated. But intensifying settler violence, the blackmail of hoodlums and terrorists, must not enjoy that leverage

Is a two-state solution still possible? Absolutely, say the authors of a new report on the subject – both possible and necessary. Those who claim otherwise are not looking at the facts on the ground but distorting those facts to pursue their own right-wing agenda.

The report, issued by the center-left think tank Molad, is particularly welcome at this moment, even if it goes astray in drawing its final conclusions.