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The return of the ‘Palestinian issue’
For better or for worse, the relative decline in the international importance of the Palestinian issue is attributable to the Netanyahu governments over the past decade. In the first decade of the 2000s, allegiance to the idea of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria was de rigeur in international discourse, and any newbie statesman – whether he believed in the idea or considered it dangerous – was required to pay tribute lest he be