About that two state solution….
Palestinian leadership considers withdrawing from the Oslo accords

President Mahmoud Abbas is considering cancelling the 1993 Oslo accords, and related economic agreements, according to media reports. The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at the weekend, the reports said.

The issue has been raised against the backdrop of renewed warnings that a two state solution to the conflict may no longer be possible.

In a speech to be delivered on Thursday, Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband will say: “For the first time in a long time there is no ‘peace process’. Not even the pretence of one.”

He will urge world leaders not to forget the cause of a Palestinian state, despite attention being focussed on “the convulsions in the Arab world”. Rejecting the US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s comments about the impossibility of a two-state solution, Miliband will add: “Now is not the time to say that the problem is unsolvable.”