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Chuck Schumer: “Too many Israelis who say they want a two state solution…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senator Chuck Schumer's Address on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Two-State Solution

Published | Video Starts at 14:07

But for a two state solution to work over the long term, it has to include real and meaningful compromises by both sides. For example, Too many Israelis who say they want a two state solution don't acknowledge how the amount and extent of expanding settlements renders that a virtual impossibility. And too many Palestinians who say they want a two state solution don't acknowledge how their insistence on an unequivocal right of return is a fatal impediment to progress. (14:07–14:18)

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Asserts that Israeli settlement expansion makes a two-state solution virtually impossible.

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