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.
It will take a South African style international campaign. Honestly the way Iran seems to be aligning with China and China with Russia, in a few decades maybe cracking Israeli Apartheid will be seen as a way to combat the west in the geopolitical area. Israel could probably survive still on just US+EU support, but by changing circumstances palestinians might find new allies in the east as the 2nd cold war gets going. Pretty cold and cynical for the palestinians but it is at least something.
Russia has deep diplomatic ties to Israel, and China has been cultivating similar relationships for years. Iran is not a strong enough force to sever Russia and China's ties to Israel. As far as diplomatic relations go, Israel is the Switzerland of the Middle East.
eh that's true now but only because Israel is so rich they have plenty to offer China and Russia through trade still. Across decades relationships between states can fluctuate, sometimes pretty drastically. If there is some major crisis in the middle east between Iran and Israel, and with how much they provoke one another that's not unlikely, other countries may be forced to pick a side. Wether they think its worth it to ditch Israel for Iran depends on what Israel can still offer them. Currently Israel is still rich af and Russia and China love trading with them, but a lot of things can change in the future with the unstable politics and climate-change sensitive climate.