Western support for a two-state solution was never intended to create Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Now that the Western consensus is shifting, so are thoughts about the need for the PA.
Dr. Lex Takkenberg argues that we need to move beyond Oslo’s paradigm of partition and separation and to instead adopt a new-old vision for a single democratic state.
All these decades after Oslo, we should recognize that there is no solution without the full liberation of Palestine. Oslo has become the litmus test for how sincere one is about the liberation of Palestine.
The transition from a Jewish state to a democratic state of all its citizens will benefit Jews by ending Zionism’s conflation of Jewishness with a racist settler-colonial project.
Antony Blinken resurrected the two-state zombie in his address to AIPAC on the 56th anniversary of the 1967 War. But the number of true believers in Washington who buy these fantasies is dwindling.
Beltway scholar Marc Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
The fact of a one-state reality in Israel/Palestine has been obvious for years, but “those who spoke the truth out loud were ignored or punished.” Now that’s changed. So says a groundbreaking article in the establishment magazine “Foreign Affairs.”
While the Biden administration claims to oppose “unilateral steps that make a two-state solution harder to achieve,” Israel has already crossed the “red line” of annexation.
Recent proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation are a makeover of the two-state solution, allowing Israel to continue to legitimize its settler-colonial project.
“Is it time for this occupation to end? Morally speaking, how much should this military occupation go on, generation after generation?” Said Arikat asks the State Department after another humiliating incident: Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian woman at a cagelike checkpoint to strip her three-year-old’s tshirt because it pictured a rifle.