Representatives from dozens of countries descended on New York City this week for a conference about the two-state solution led by France and Saudi Arabia. "We must ensure that it does not become another exercise in well-meaning rhetoric," U.N. secretary-general António Guterres informed the gathered delegates. "It" referred to the conference rather than to the two-state solution, but in either case, Guterres's aspirations will not bear out. Like many of the other attempts at a two-state