"To the southwest, the Sinai, three times Israel's size with only 600,000 people. South of Eilat, there's the vast Saudi desert. Why are Earth's people obsessed with the 'two-state solution' and insist it's not just the best but the only option?"This solution rests on four assumptions accepted without scrutiny for 32 years: that the conflict must be resolved territorially in the narrow strip between the Jordan and the sea; that a sovereign Palestinian state is necessary; that Gaza and the West Bank must be part of the same state and that Israel's border with a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, with minor adjustments. Every attempt to implement this plan has failed -- it's time to reassess these assumptions.