

What the Palestinians are being "offered" now is not rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts. 1//What the Palestinians are being "offered" now is not rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts.

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The reality on the ground is already one of full Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is a reality of one, inherently undemocratic, state.

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The main change today is that Israel and the Trump administration are taking a step further in laying bare their intention to perpetuate this reality. This clarity significantly reduces the gap between the situation as it is, and the euphemistic terms used to describe it.