Carter: Two-State offer is dead

Former US president Jimmy Carter on Thursday painted a bleak picture of the prospects for talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) - and placed the blame for the deadlock on Israel.

“At this moment, there is zero chance of the two-state solution,” Carter told the British Prospect Magazine in an interview.

“These are the worst prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians for years,” he added, and then proceeded to say he didn’t think that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “has any intention” of making progress towards the goal.

“The Netanyahu government decided early on to adopt a one-state solution, but without giving them [the Palestinians] equal rights,” he charged.

“They will never get equal rights,” predicted Carter, who added that he would like a drive to give them “more equal rights.”