This is the spirit Palestinians are invoking when they reject proposals they see as false choices rooted in injustice. Once the Palestinians reject Trump’s plan, hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims follow. This means that Trump’s plan cannot function as basis for peace, but only as a U.S. authorization for Israel’s unilateral annexation of 30 percent of the West Bank and continued control of Palestinians living there, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced. Condemning Trump’s plan and calling for resuscitating the two-state solution is no longer useful; that “solution” has been dead for more than a decade. Trump’s plan opened a gate for a powerful stream that will carry us toward the dreadful challenges of an apartheid state.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2020 21:33 UTC