MELBER: Yes, I don't know what people want you to commit to. Genuinely trying to understand, I think you just said, so you are conditionally open to a two-state solution, but you're not supporting it. That's kind of where you land right now?
EL-SAYED: It's the process by which we got there.
It's like saying, look, I'm fine with whomever -- obviously, I'm a partisan, but we are committed to the process of democracy to decide who our leaders are. You might want one leader or another, but you -- the process is what matters the most, and it's that process that we need to be committed to.
And, right now, I just have to say, our government is nominally for a two-state solution, but we are aiding, arming, and abetting the people who want to foreclose on the second state. It's incoherent. It is hypocritical. So I'd be sitting here telling you I'm for a two-state solution or I'm for a one-state solution, but, in the end, our government is foreclosing on any such solution that can be got through a movement to actual self-determination for the Palestinian people...
MELBER: Yes.
EL-SAYED: ... which, of course, if you want peace, you have to have justice, which means that people have to have a voice in the outcome.
And, right now, the Palestinian people don't -- are not being given the opportunity for that voice. And so what I'm telling you is, I'm for a process that gets us there.
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