The latest call for the creation of a Palestinian state by Prime Minister Mark Carney and the leaders of many other countries is a classic example of politicians believing they have to say something and this is something.

The political fraud inherent in this call, however, is the implication that creating a Palestinian state will end the suffering of the Palestinians and ensure Israel’s security.

A peace deal requires credible leaders on all sides of the conflict who genuinely want peace, which doesn’t exist in Israel today.

Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza — one half of the proposed Palestinian state, along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem — in 2005, using its army to forcibly remove 9,000 Jewish settlers in 21 settlements, plus four Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

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