With Britain’s recognition of the Palestinian state , few in my community, or in Israel, have heard the rest of the UN’s New York Declaration and its attempt to revive the two-state solution. Its detail, most of which is quite close to Israel’s stated conditions for ending the war, has been lost amid the fierce opposition to the recognition of the state of Palestine .

On the face of it, this lack of welcome is strange, as a majority of the Jewish community here has for many years supported a two-state solution, as does the Board of Deputies of British Jews. This harks back to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning “Oslo process” era of the 1990s, before its progress was abruptly – and, as it turned out, definitively – disrupted by the bullet that killed Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. F

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