After dropping from the electoral programs of the Israeli left .. Will the two-state solution be buried permanently?

Mohamed Mohsen Wedd - Occupied Jerusalem

Alliances between parties and movements from the left and center camps on the eve of Israel's Knesset elections resolved the debate over a two-state solution to end the conflict with the Palestinians by dropping this solution from the electoral agenda and replacing the loose slogan of "a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians."

The absence of "two states for two peoples" left the agenda of the left-wing Meretz movement with its new president, Nitzan Horowitz, the way to an alliance with former prime minister Ehud Barak, who returned to the political arena with a party of "democratic Israel." Barak is the one who says "there is no Palestinian partner" Which formed the political and mental landscape of Israel, which refuses to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians under the "two-state solution."

Criticism of the left-wing camp for the alliance with Barak seemed marginal, and it quickly disappeared with the approval of the Meretz Conference. The coalition program calls for joining a national unity government even if it is formed by the Likud party and seeking a political settlement with the Palestinians. Is the other side of President Donald H. Trump's Middle East peace plan.

Under the name of the "democratic camp", and after Labor MK Stav Schaffer joined him, the coalition is running the Knesset elections on 17 September. Opinion polls have given him 10 to 12 seats, absenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from his agenda and focus On internal issues and corruption files of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Principles and Alliances
Asked about the criticisms of the alliance and the possibility of canceling the two-state solution and ruining the establishment of a Palestinian state from the political scene, the head of the Democratic camp, Horowitz, said: "We have formulated general principles and guidelines and do not cancel any of our principles."

"In any coalition between the parties, problems and criticism are surfacing, but in the case before us, when we look at the benefit, we find it greater than any problem and any political dispute. We have to increase our strength, and personally we should look at the best and the benefit that is achieved," Horowitz said. This alliance. "

Plans and alternatives
Commenting on the left-wing alliance with Barak, Rabbi Eliyahu Kaufman, calculated on the ultra-Orthodox movement, said that "the bear alliance that Barak initiated with the Zionist left raises many questions and puzzlement and strangeness." He pointed out that Barak is right-wing, He helped Netanyahu at the beginning of his career to reach the premiership, which in turn secured Barak a seat on the Likud list in 2013.

In response to whether this alliance represents the last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution and contributes to the establishment of a Palestinian state and its removal from the Israeli political agenda, Rabbi Kaufman told Al-Jazeera Net that "the union between Meretz and the Ehud Barak group is essentially the end of the political and Zionist alternative in the leftist camp Calling for an end to the conflict with the Palestinians, in accordance with international resolutions. "

He pointed out that the Meretz movement was the only one in recent years that hinted at peace between the Israeli parties, while pushing the Netanyahu government to promote the American peace plan known as the "Deal of the Century", which goes beyond the Palestinian issue and establishes the normalization of relations between Tel Aviv and Arab and Islamic countries To pay Israel any political price.

Attract and Refuse
The Labor Party is the founder of the Jewish state and the godfather of the Oslo Accords, which faces challenges that threaten to disappear from the Israeli political scene - according to Kovman-Gibb, the "two-state solution" and the Palestinian question of its electoral program. "Two states for two peoples".

Labor leader Amir Peretz initiated an alliance with the Gesher bloc headed by Orly Levy-Abu Kassis, who split from the Yisrael Beiteinu party headed by former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman.

According to analysts, Peretz is seeking coalition and partnership with Abu Kassis, who is affiliated with the right-wing camp, to attract moderate votes from the Likud party, as well as infiltrating the eastern Jewish community, which is the stronghold of the Likud.

"It looks like a more complicated step, and the coalition may be a new social party that will barely exceed the discount," he says. "If generals are not willing to get close to joining the Labor Party, And senior party officials give up and do not want to accept the elected president's leadership, why do voters trust him? "

"Since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, no leader of the Labor Party has emerged from the leadership of the state. The party has no successful leadership role, and with the coalition of Kahal-Lavan on the right and the Barak-Meretz coalition on the left, Independently, and has to ally with figures from the right camp in an effort to preserve its existence. "