Casualty of Israeli-Hamas fighting: The Palestinian two-state solution? | USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – With the Israel-Hamas cease-fire now in place, Palestinians and Israelis are grappling with the grim toll – in lives lost, homes and hospitals destroyed, societal and individual psyches shattered.
But experts say one major casualty has already emerged from the rubble: the two-state solution – the creation of an independent Palestinian nation alongside Israel – which has been the North Star of a negotiated settlement to the decades-old conflict.
It was already a damaged, neglected proposal. The latest violence, which has wreaked far more devastation in Gaza than in Israel, has only highlighted its irrelevance, many former negotiators and Middle East observers believe.