Context: The whole premise of the two-state solution is misplaced. The only alternative is that settlers (Jews) and natives (Palestinians) should together build a new state that is democratic and not against the Arab world.
Background

• Many world countries through the United Nations insist on a two-state solution to end the Israel-Palestine conflict.
• The support for the two-state solution is based on the reasoning that once two states become a reality, Israel will stop severe violations of the Palestinian civil and human rights.
• However, it is not a “conflict” as such rather it is a settler-colonial reality that began in the late 19th century.
• Late scholar, Patrick Wolfe, states that settler colonial movements are motivated by a logic called “the elimination of the native”.
• Sometimes it may lead to genocide, as it happened in North America, sometimes it gets translated to an ongoing ethnic cleansing operation as unfolded in Palestine.
• So, the two-state solution is not going to stop the ethnic cleansing instead, talking about it provides Israel international immunity to continue it.

How Israel has worked towards eliminating the native population so far?

World nations are insisting on the two-state solution to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, Palestinians fear that the Israelis would not be content and will try to occupy as much of its territory as possible. This Prediction became true after a year.

• First, in 1948, the UN insisted that partition was the only solution for Palestine. Under the UN support, the new Jewish state took over nearly 80% of historical Palestine and ethnically cleansed almost a million Palestinians.
• Second, in 1967, Israel occupied the rest of historical Palestine, and in the process expelled another 300,000 Palestinians.

Third, apart from Incremental ethnic cleansing, Israel also employed other means to achieve the old Zionist goal of turning historical Palestine into a Jewish state. Such as

1. Imposing military rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to restrict people’s basic human and civil rights.
2. Imposing a version of an Apartheid regime on the Palestinian minority in Israel.
3. Disregarding the demographic reality by refusing the 1948 refugees to return.
4. Israel passed a citizenship law in 2018. It was known as the nationality law to complete its strategy that included the partition of the West Bank, its Bantustanisation, and the siege of Gaza.

The law made sure that the Palestinian citizens become 2nd class citizens like the “Africans”, in a new Israeli Jewish apartheid state.
Road Ahead

• The only alternative is to decolonise historical Palestine and build one single state for all its citizens all over the country.
• It should be based on the dismantlement of colonialist institutions, fair redistribution of the country’s natural resources, compensation of the victims of the ethnic cleansing and allowing their repatriation.
• This will be an inspiration for the rest of the region which desperately needs such models.