Tzipi Hotovely has committed the gravest sin in diplomacy: speaking candidly. In an interview with Sky News, Israel’s ambassador to the Court of St James’s rejected the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Hotovely told a plainly horrified Mark Austin there could ‘absolutely not’ be a Palestinian state now, saying: ‘It’s about time for the world to realise that the Oslo paradigm failed on 7 October.’ She added: ‘Israel knows today and the world should know now that the Palestinians never wanted to have a state next to Israel. They want to have a state from the river to the sea. They are saying it loud and clear.’
The 7 October attack did not end the two-state solution, it confirmed a new world in which it has no purchase
Hotovely not only transgressed in diplomatic terms, she blasphemed against the most cherished belief of the global norms-setters: the EU, the State Department, the Foreign Office, the international relations schools and the foreign correspondents.
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