'Absolutely not': Israeli ambassador to UK rejects two-state solution

Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely rejected the possibility of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, saying that the Palestinians only want one state "from the river to the sea."

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"I think it's about time for the world to realize the Oslo paradigm failed on October 7 and we need to build a new one," said Hotovely. When asked if a new paradigm would include a Palestinian state, the ambassador said "absolutely no."

"Israel knows today and the world should know now that the reason the Oslo accords failed was because the Palestinians never wanted to have a state next to Israel, they want to have a state from the river to the sea."

Hotovely called the two-state solution "a formula that never worked, that created this radical people on the other side," questioning why the interviewer was "obsessed" with the two-state solution.

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