John Kerry's two-state plan still falls short in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Rashid Khalidi

Kerry made another push for peace in the Middle East, but the whole discourse gives Israel the upper handAs 2017 dawns, the ghost of Lord Balfour still haunts us. Just as the British foreign secretary’s 1917 declaration considered only how the Zionist movement could serve the interests of the greatest power of its day, so has the recent speech of the US secretary of state, John Kerry, advocating a two-state solution addressed mainly the interests of today’s superpower and its prot&ea