President Trump's plan to displace the Palestinian population of Gaza and have the United States take over the enclave may have all but written the obituary for the two-state solution. In Trump's vision, Gaza would become a U.S. territory transformed into a 'Riviera of the Middle East.' The prospects for a Palestinian state had already dwindled in recent years, and neither Israeli nor Palestinian populations see the two-state scenario as a viable plan anymore. The reaction to Trump's Gaza plan was broadly negative outside Israel, with many world leaders restating support for the two-state solution. However, the concept of an old-fashioned two-state solution has been gone for a while, and a broader, regionwide change driven by Arab rapprochement with Israel may be necessary.
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