<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b209f4e-ca78-4b2b-a072-9da9e864b284/0865E12A-747B-42B7-8279-0BC21A421AD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html" href="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">en.qantara.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.qantara.de/img/8E9BC990-5188-42CD-AC5E-51C68853B788" alt="Israeli and Palestinian flag (image: AP Graphics)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html"> Over the course of the past decade, professing one's faith in the two-state solution has become something of a creed in European politics. Politicians recited this creed like a mantra whenever the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict arose.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html">But while German and European politicians were paying lip service to the concept, the two-state solution increasingly began to lose support in the Middle East itself. It has all but disappeared from the Israeli discourse on the situation. Moreover, soon after its election, the new Israeli government officially distanced itself from the vision of a Palestinian state, the establishment of which all previous governments had worked hard to prevent.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html"> Palestinians have quite simply lost faith in the belief that the two states will ever become reality.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1164/i.html"><BR /> <SPAN class="imagecenter"> <SPAN class="unsichtbar">| Bild: </SPAN> <SPAN class="imageblock"> <IMG title="Israeli settlement (photo: AP)" alt="Israeli settlement (photo: AP)" src="http://en.qantara.de/files/476/3906/4a28ff80e9381_Israeli_settlements.jpg" /> <SPAN class="imagetext"><SPAN class="innertext">Heavy burden for the peace process: George Bush did not to insist on the clearing of the large Israeli settlements in the West Bank</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0865E12A-747B-42B7-8279-0BC21A421AD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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