The Palestinian people are pawns‚ props in a local‚ regional‚ and global game that puts their real interests last. It is beyond ironic that the vile attacks of October 7 have revived the notion of a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians — an idea that was‚ until that moment‚ politically moribund. Of course‚ such a “solution” was far from Hamas’s aim‚ but it remains the only idea available to the lazy diplomatic and peace-processing class. The two-state...