When I ask this question, I really would like hopeful and positive answers. I know this is some doomerist bullshit but I'm in a bad mood and I can't stop thinking about it. The Israeli state is too militarily and diplomatically superior to Palestine for the Palestinian people to ever regain territorial sovereignty. The Arab nations that once guaranteed Palestine and fought for its independence have either given up or fallen to pieces. All of the world's major powers -the US, the EU, China, Russia, NATO- are allied with or maintain close relations with Israel. So what route remains for Palestinian sovereignty? While there is a Palestinian state, a state without complete control of its land cannot enforce its own laws, and if a state cannot enforce its laws then it is not a state at all. In its current status, Israel uses the current Palestinian state as an excuse, saying that it is accomplishing its end of the 2 state solution. However, everyone knows that the Israeli government has sole control over the land supposedly in the sole hands of the Palestinian state, and the only reason it doesn't annex the land formally is because that would challenge the ethnic dominance of the Jewish people in the Israeli state. All this diplomatic bullshit with raising a flag at the UN and being designated a "non-member observer state" is just an excuse for the crimes the state of Israel is committing against the Palestinian people. Note that I am referring to the State of Israel rather than Israelis themselves. It is disingenuous to say that the nation of Israel is unilaterally opposed to the rights of the nation of Palestine, however, a state is not a nation. People united by a singular identity are a nation, and a state is a military structure which enforces rules in the name of that identity. As such, the Palestinian nation will never go away, but its state hardly exists at all. At any moment the Israeli state could annex Gaza and the West Bank, and ultimately no one could or would do anything about it. In fact, I'm sure that stocks in the GCC would rise dramatically because of all the new luxury condo development opportunities. Every day the world adjusts more to a stateless Palestine, and a nation of people trapped in their own land by a colonial state whose very structure is threatened by the native peoples' existence. I can't help but recognize that the Israeli state won long ago, and that there is no longer a Palestine to free while the Israeli state exists. Please tell me I'm wrong.

    • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The issue is that Israel doesn't need to annex the WB, it already has de facto control. Barring a huge shift towards secularized western nationalism or a marxist coup, I cannot see a world where Israel gives full citizenship and constitutional rights to all of the Palestinians within its current territorial control. There is no reason for the status quo to change because the Palestinian people are powerless to change their situation in any meaningful way and it is in no country's interest to support them. If things were to change, the cynic in me thinks that Israel would partner with GCC countries to make an "express immigration system" (deportation via economic warfare) for Palestinian Arabs to move to the Gulf as a replacement for the GCC's increasingly scrutinized and horribly abusive migrant labour system. I would say they'd try to deport them to the US or EU to join existing diaspora communities but fuck knows they don't want them. The fact of the matter is that the Israeli government would not allow a nation populated primarily by Arab Muslims, so they will not formally annex the land until those Muslims are gone one way or another.