Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so hard to resolve | Mapped Out
Published at : 23 Dec 2025
Amid the latest escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas and Israel's subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, one possible answer that keeps resurfacing is what's known as the two-state solution. The decades-long conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and negotiators have failed time and again to break the deadlock. We take a look at the two-state solution and other ideas that have been proposed by experts and the international community and explore: what makes the conflict so complex?