Hi Steve, I appreciate you taking the time to write and hope you found the discussion last week to be valuable. Yes, I deliberately did not get into the larger questions in this little article but did my best to acknowledge the omission. There are a few major obstacles to a two state solution, and the settlements are very high on the list; they've been a complete disaster. I remember touring the West Bank in 2017 and seeing quite clearly how they made a continuous Palestinian state geographically next-to-impossible. There are also other factors that get much less attention; most important perhaps is the question of Palestinians' so-called right to return to Israel proper. I'm reading Einat Wilf's book on the topic now and learning a lot. More on this in a future piece. Many thanks for engaging with me and thinking this through together.