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Two-state solution shrinks as campaigning wraps up in Israel

Even Prime Minister Yair Lapid, commended internationally for supporting the two-state solution at the UN, has stopped championing the issue on the campaign trail.
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Despite violence escalating in the West Bank over the past two months, one political issue is conspicuously absent from the Israeli electoral agenda: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its possible two-state solution.

A single issue will decide how Israelis cast their votes Nov. 1: whether to restore former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two blocs that were once categorized by their support of or opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state have realigned around the Netanyahu question.

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