The short answer: it didn’t, it doesn’t, and it almost certainly won’t. A report issued this week makes clear why.Shaul Arieli, the report’s author, is a former commander of the Northern Division in Gaza and was involved in the Geneva Initiative, which in 2003 presented a comprehensive plan to implement the two-state solution. The central claim of the report (titled “Why Settlements Have Not Killed the Two-state Solution”) is thatthe real difficulty in implementing the idea of partition is not physical but political. After all, most Israeli settlement is concentrated in blocs, the Israeli settlement presence beyond the blocs is limited, most working settlers are employed inside Israel, Israeli settlements use largely distinct infrastructure from West Bank Palestinians, many settlers are economically motivated therefore likely to move voluntarily in the event of peace, and the number of new homes currently being planned for construction within Israel is twenty times the number of households that might need to be relocated.”