The greatest lie ever told by Arab states, the PA and European governments is that creating a Palestinian state will end the conflict and bring peace.
It won’t. It never has and it never will.
The Arabs don’t want one. Iran will never settle for one. All it will produce is a much bloodier war. And the same countries demanding it today will not lift a finger to defend Israel when the Arabs start the next war. October 7 already proved that.
Watch the language. European governments carefully say “a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.” The PA, Arab states, and Islamic governments say “Jerusalem.” No “East.” Just Jerusalem. They know Israel will never hand over its capital. They know the Old City and the Temple Mount are not on the table. So they keep the demand maximal on purpose.
When they need Western cover they insert the word “East.” When they speak to their own side they drop it and claim the whole city.
The European version is a diplomatic fiction designed to sound like compromise. The Palestinian and Arab version is the actual position. Both sides understand the other will not concede the core of the city.
The talk of a state is just how the stalemate is maintained while the next war is prepared. And as we already know there will be a next one, we may as well not waste more time and just finish this one… permanently and definitively.