Well Israel may well have "given up control" of Gaza almost 20 years ago ( by withdrawing, so that they can claim not to be "occupying" the territory (a piece of arrant nonsense parroted by our shadow chancellor yesterday - if you control the borders with an iron grip and decide what goes in and who is allowed in and out, of course you're occupying it).

A two-state solution is impossible for two reasons. First, what might have formed a Palestinian state has been broken into pieces via the proliferation of illegal settlements in the West Bank. There's no viable contiguous territory any more. Second, there is no peace process. Arguably, there never has been a serious one, but such a process is as far away as ever. We have an extreme right-wing, racist regime in Israel that has, in all but name, created an apartheid state, and we have a completely hopeless geriatric in charge of the PA who makes very unwise antisemitic mutterings, on top of his incompetence. Oh, then there's Hamas. Let's not pretend that we can leave them out. And do we really want to create a pair of enemy states sharing a border?