In 1947 the newly founded UN divided the British mandate of Palestine. Since then, the ideal of two equal nations has existed.
What followed were many more wars and few serious attempts to create peace between peoples. Bernhard Zand traces this history - from 1947 to the Oslo peace process in 1993 - in this episode of the SPIEGEL foreign podcast Eight Billion. Listen to this podcast episode here: In the regular episode of Eight Billion, BernhardZand and host Olaf Heuser discuss the current possibilities of a two-state solution.