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Debbi W's avatar

Another very timely and informative article. I had no idea that HKOPS solution has been brewing since 2002 by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

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DAVID SINGER's avatar

You have misread my article.

HKOPS didn't start brewing till 2020 after the publication of the Trump Plan and morphed into HKOPS 2 which was published on 8 June 2022.

The two-state solution was conceived by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman in 2002 together with then Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at their bizarre dinner in the Royal Palace when Tom dared to broach the two-state solution - to find out to his shock and amazement that Abdullah had a speech in his desk proposing such a solution. Abdullah subsequently became King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015.

Hope this clarifies what happened.

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