Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; Zionist-left) — 2022 campaign-launch remarks, 20 Sep 2022: "Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it" — the Zionist-left's two-state / end-the-conflict stance. [Second doc — distinct TWO-STATE / peace foreign-policy axis, vs her existing liberal-Zionism / pro-democracy doc.]

The next government must renew political discourse and stop hiding behind empty words like 'managing the conflict' or 'reducing the conflict.'

Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it and love it, and we won't let it happen.

[SECOND DOCUMENT for Merav Michaeli, covering a DISTINCT axis from her existing one (a June 2023 Forward interview on reviving LIBERAL ZIONISM, likening Netanyahu to Trumpism, and defending Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul — i.e. the domestic democracy/regime axis). This document is her FOREIGN-POLICY / conflict-resolution axis: the two-state solution. Source: The Times of Israel liveblog of her Labor campaign launch, 20 September 2022 (ahead of the November 2022 election); original Hebrew; tier-2; both quotes confirmed verbatim against the fetched page; the quotes' terminal commas (before "Michaeli says/reaffirms") are rendered here as periods.] A distinct declared position of Merav Michaeli — then leader of the Israeli Labor Party and a leading voice of the Zionist left. She makes the TWO-STATE SOLUTION the existential test for Israel's future: the next government must "stop hiding behind empty words like 'managing the conflict' or 'reducing the conflict,'" and "Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it and love it, and we won't let it happen." This is the two-state / end-the-occupation pole of Israeli politics — the position that a negotiated separation into two states is necessary to preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, against both the "conflict-management" status quo and one-state outcomes. [Axes: Israeli–Palestinian conflict / two-state (a negotiated two-state solution as necessary and urgent; rejection of indefinite "conflict management"; warning that one-state-for-two-nations ends the Zionist project), Jewish-and-democratic-state (preserving Israel's character as the rationale for partition), left–right / peace-camp (the Zionist-left peace position vs the right's status-quo or annexationist approaches). NOTE: a declared-position document — Michaeli's stated foreign-policy position as reported, scoped to the two-state axis her existing document does not cover.]