In fact, despite Jared Kushner’s patronizing presumptuousness, nothing in his vision was new, since Palestinians had already imagined such a future. Economic empowerment doesn’t negate political rights, nor will it buy acquiescence to the denial of these rights. We are in an emerging one state reality– an Apartheid state. The problem is that Palestinians lack rights and power, and they lack a strategy to gain the power needed for their rights. When people live in economic despair, they are less inclined to demand political rights.

Source: Pakistan Today July 03, 2019 16:41 UTC