Two-state solution shrinks as campaigning wraps up in Israel
Even Prime Minister Yair Lapid, commended internationally for supporting the two-state solution at the UN, has stopped championing the issue on the campaign trail.
Despite violence escalating in the West Bank over the past two months, one political issue is conspicuously absent from the Israeli electoral agenda: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its possible two-state solution.
A single issue will decide how Israelis cast their votes Nov. 1: whether to restore former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two blocs that were once categorized by their support of or opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state have realigned around the Netanyahu question.
Even the left's two main leaders, Labor head and Transportation Minister Meirav Michaeli and Meretz chair Zehava Gal-On, have marginalized the two state-solution. Their main message on Twitter today is the need to save the country from a far-right-ultra-Orthodox coalition led by Netanyahu.
Their other major target is ultranationalist Itamar Ben Gvir, who has been soaring in the polls. The left sees his rise as a sign that Israeli democracy is on the verge of collapse.
