There are two sides to the Israeli Gaza conflict

Many believe they should be the same ones that existed before the 1967 six-day war, which saw Israel occupy East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Both sides have rejected it, The West Bank would be Palestinian under the Two State solution.

And remember that Israel attacked the Secretary General in the United Nations when he urged restraint in its bombing of Gaza, demanding his resignation.

So Israel is not without faults. There are two sides to the Israeli Gaza conflict.

This observer has been continually surprised by Joe Biden's strong support of Israel. It would seem that the president of most powerful country in the world would strive for peace, not take sides. It would appear to be based in domestic politics. The Jewish Electorate Institute, led by Jewish Democrats "committed to bettering our understanding of the Jewish electorate and encouraging civic engagement in the Jewish community," published a survey showing two very important findings: one, only 63% of American Jews would vote today for President Joe Biden, who received 80% of the Jewish vote in 2020. Biden would appear to be playing domestic politics. At 79, Biden who was under siege for his age, recently failed his 2024 re-election bid. He was too old to run for President.

American Jewish voter are liberal, incidentally. Abortion incidentally continues to be a defining issue among these voters with 88% believing it should be legal and 80% concerned that women no longer have the constitutional right to abortion.

Israel, like communities of Jews throughout history, will always need to protect itself from haters. And we must acknowledge the horrendous slaughter in WW II. As a consequence, any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if ever one is to present itself, must always address the need for Israel to defend itself. Another consequence of this writer's World Bank work was in the countries surrounding Israel where he found an overwhelming objection to the country.

Finally, what is the solution? Australia's own Prime Minister prefers the Two State solution. Most observers state that it is dead. Liberal Zionists and foreign diplomats mainly are clinging to an obsolete political program. Israel is a far-right country, with its most right-wing government in history. Remember Netanyahu's attempt to control the Supreme Court. Israel has also objected to the two-state solution. In the late 1990s, the Oslo Accords brought together Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. The former was the Israeli prime minister, and the latter was the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). That elements of the far-right were so opposed to the Oslo Accords was the cause behind Rabin's assassination in 1995 for signing them. Among the people who had threatened Rabin before his death was Itamar Ben-Gvir, now Israel's National Security Minister. Itamar Ben-Gvir (born May 6, 1976, is an Israeli lawyer and politician who since 2019 has led the far-right party Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit). He is known for his inflammatory views against Palestinians, following in the ideological footsteps of Meir Kahane, whose militant Kach movement was outlawed in 1994 under anti-terrorism laws

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank is a major - and highly controversial - act.

Meanwhile, Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, warned that a two-state solution would forgo the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the historic lands seized from them in 1948 when Israel was created. Palestinians seek the whole of the West Bank - to which they claim an historical right - for a future independent state, along with the Gaza Strip

"I think there is a need in Israel, under the heaviest, most difficult conditions, never to lose sight of the objective," former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told TIME magazine. "The right way is to look to the two-state solution, not because of justice to the Palestinians, which is not the uppermost on my priorities, but because we have a compelling imperative to disengage from the Palestinians to protect our own security, our own future, our own identity."

Netanyahu disagrees with the two state solution.The possible answer to peace in this conflict? A more accommodating government in Israel, accepting the two states and willing to forgo the West Bank settlements. This in turn will make Hamas, the elected government of Gaza, willing to accept the two state solution.