The Guardian has a fascinating two-part article which surveys the current situation on the ground in Israel and Palestine. Be sure to read the second part as well.
\ “It’s scarcely surprising that Palestinian enthusiasm for the two-state consensus is eroding. The Oslo agreement may have brought the Palestinian leadership home, but it also required them to act as security sub-contractors for Israel in what amounted to a souped-up colony. Now, many Palestinians have begun to wonder whether the kind of state Israel and its US champion are prepared to accept is really in their interests – or whether it will simply amount, as one PLO official puts it, to a re-arrangement of the occupation into a “collection of glorified Indian reservations”. If the ‘two-state moment has been and gone’, some ask, then why not instead fight for equal rights, South African-style, in the single binational state that has in practice existed in Palestine since 1967?”