Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Ban last week, saying he gave a "tailwind to terrorism" after the secretary-general put some of the blame on Israel for four months of stabbings and car rammings by Palestinians.
Ban, who will step down at the end of 2016 after 10 years as U.N. chief, had told the U.N. Security Council that it is "human nature to react to occupation."
"I will always stand up to those who challenge Israel’s right to exist," Ban said in the Times, "just as I will always defend the right of Palestinians to have a state of their own. That is why I am so concerned that we are reaching a point of no return for the two-state solution."
The United States and the European Union - Israel's closest allies - also have had unusually stern criticism of Israel in recent weeks, reflecting their frustrations with Netanyahu's right-wing government




Acknowledge this though

Every now and then the world gets a guilty conscience and tries to pressure Israel to end apartheid. Then things return to the status quo.

I do not see a two state solution happening. Palestine has become too fragmented due to settlement building. A one state solution now seems more feasible where Israelis and Palestinians co-exist as one country. Either that or Palestinians will simply be banished into refugee camps or to Jordan. But the more likely outcome is that Palestinians will continue to be stateless in our lifetime. And Europeans will hem and haw and nothing will happen.

Here we go again