Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
2. Highlights the challenges in the success of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and analyse the amicability of one-state solution for the same. (250 words)
Reference: The Hindu
Why the question:
The article highlights the challenges in the success of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and suggests the one-state solution instead.
Key Demand of the question:
Analyse the Israel-Palestine conflict in detail and analyse the amicability of the one-State solution.
Directive:
Analyze – When asked to analyse, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start with brief background of the two-state solution.
Body:
It involves dividing Palestine between the state of Israel and the indigenous population of Palestine. It was first offered by the British in 1937 and rejected by the Palestinians already then. In 1947 the United Nations insisted that the Palestinians should give half of their homeland to the settler movement of Zionism. The two-state solution, offered for the first time by liberal Zionists and the United States in the 1980s, is seen by some Palestinians as the best way of ending of the occupation of the West Bank.
Detail upon the interpretation of two-state solution. Highlight the issues associated.
Throw light upon one-state solution.
Conclusion:
Thus, the one-state solution is the way forward in Palestine and that should be the state for all citizens.
