ALL BETS ARE OFF: Of the various scenarios being offered in the wake of the takeover of Gaza by Hamas, one is to dump Oslo altogether:

The political crisis has propelled a debate among Palestinian intellectuals over whether Palestinians might be better served by dumping the trappings of the 1993 Oslo peace agreement, which created the enfeebled Palestinian Authority, and leaving themselves under Israeli occupation without their own government.

This would, in effect, swap the two-state solution for a one-state vision in which Arabs might someday achieve a demographic majority in the region that includes Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The idea has gained momentum since the power-sharing agreement reached in February between Hamas and Fatah failed to get the international community to end its ban on aid to the Hamas-led government.

"One cannot exclude such a possibility: that this is the end of the two-state solution," said Yitzhak Reiter, a fellow at Hebrew University's Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem.

Of course that power-sharing agreement didn't get the complete backing of Hamas and Fatah either--but why quibble? Besides, recent demographic research indicates that the Palestinian demographics are not everything they've been cracked up to be.

[Hat tip: Hot Air]

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