What remains of the two-state solution?

The international resolutions calling for a two-state solution, on the basis of which the peace process and negotiations for a comprehensive and complete settlement were based, between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, and the historic concession made by the Palestine Liberation Organization, when it agreed to a Palestinian state established on an area of 22 percent of the total area of Palestine, and the international and UN consensus that supported and pushed the settlement wheel for years, were aborted by the extreme right in Israel since the beginning of the second millennium.

Since then, we have been hovering in vague, gray areas under false promises here and there. What was clear was that the facts on the ground would reach these levels, which would make it difficult to establish a state with natural extension, sovereignty, and independence, with the continuation of settlement and annexation plans, and policies of isolating cities and dividing the West Bank into small cantons, surrounded by settlements and barriers. The city of Jerusalem was also completely isolated from its Palestinian surroundings, and from all the cities and towns adjacent to it.

The occupation's desire is clear, whether through statements and plans, or through internal alliances and understandings, about their intentions to displace the Palestinians, annex their lands, and exile them from the map of existence, even if that exile is to heaven as they are doing in Gaza. A racist view that the leaders of extremism and terrorism within the occupation government openly declare, and we sense their practices on the ground in every detail of our lives and in the minutes of our time.

We must understand that the state of international absence and the bias of some countries, most notably America, pushed the occupation to this racism. It is also important to know the reality of the Arab reality and its weakness, in the face of what has happened and is happening at the regional and regional level, which has put the Palestinian cause and the entire Palestinian people under the stick of the occupation, policies of oppression and strangulation, methods of killing and torture, and in the lack of vision of the international community, and the lack of seriousness of the United States of America, then merely talking about the two-state solution is an illusion and a mirage, and betting on it is a waste of time. It is the time that the occupation wants to continue implementing its plans.

The state of despair that our people have reached regarding the settlement process, and all the promises and slogans about it, is due to the lived experience that did not result in the return of the most basic rights, and the occupier did not stop its attacks, and the Palestinians did not achieve what they dreamed of. These days coincide with the 31st anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords, which did not produce a state for three decades. Rather, after these years, we are living today a comprehensive and complete war of extermination, and great devastation that has destroyed all forms of life in Gaza, and we are witnessing international inability to stop this extermination.

Oslo, which the Palestinians welcomed despite all that was wrong with it, they looked forward to a state, sovereignty and even partial deliverance from the occupation, but in the end it did not lead to a state, as the extreme right in Israel killed it, danced on it and rushed to nibble away and annex lands and establish settlements, and imposed a new and completely different geography, and trampled under the boots of its soldiers all the agreements, and returned the occupation to the areas known as Areas (A), which are the cities from which the occupation withdrew according to the agreements.

Under the war government with its extremist racist composition, talk of a two-state solution is a big lie, and a failed and expired anesthesia, because the reality of the experience in the eyes of young and old knows very well that the matter is impossible, unless the international will wants it and the major countries agree, and impose a just and serious solution according to a specific time vision, and binding decisions on the occupation, and without that, peace remains slaughtered by the sword of the occupation, its guns, and its settler herds.

Under the war government with its extremist racist composition, talk of a two-state solution is a big lie, and a failed and expired anesthetic, because the reality of the experience in the eyes of young and old knows very well that it is impossible.