Professor S. Michael Lynk:

I will get to that when I answer the Senator's question on accountability. I want to make it clear that a number of people have said there is no path to a two-state solution any more. In 2013, as he was about to launch his then unsuccessful peace initiative, Mr. John Kerry, the then US Secretary of State, told the American Congress that the window for a two-state solution was only one year or two years, or it was over. That was nine years ago. UN Security Council Resolution 2334 in 2016 stated that Israel's settlement activities were "dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines". The European Union has stated that the situation has devolved into "a one-state reality of unequal rights". My final quote is again from Mr. Ban Ki-moon, who wrote in 2021 that "Israel has pursued a policy of incremental de facto annexation in the territories it has occupied since 1967, to the point where the prospect of a two-state solution has all but vanished". I may be repeating myself but I think most speakers and responsible commentators who look at this with no blinkers on are coming to the same conclusion with respect to this.