The Israelis are unwilling to lose their status as a Jewish state, but there is no possible way the Palestinians would agree to live and coexist in a Jewish state. A joint council of Israeli and Palestinian representatives would not work because there would constantly be a 50/50 split, and it would be difficult for any decisions to be made. Because of this, any development of a combined Palestinian-Israeli state would be limited. Member of the Israeli Knesset for the Labor Party, Hilik Bar, said, “One state would be the end of the Zionist dream and it would eliminate the dream of the Palestinians to have a state of their own. With this, we would doom ourselves to perpetual conflict, a lose-lose situation” (Bar).…