The final nail in the coffin of the "two-state solution"?

We should not get tired of repeating that, in the midst of everyone's preoccupation with the current Israeli government's plan to weaken the judiciary, and to dismantle what is known as checks and balances between the three branches of government, leading to near-absolute control of the executive authority over the other two branches, this government took a step described as, Even from an Israeli point of view, it is dramatic and would indicate Israel's current direction with regard to the file of occupation in the 1967 territories and the Palestinian cause in general.

The intent, as the author indicated in previous articles, is the approval of the Knesset General Assembly in late March, in the second and third readings, of an amendment stipulating the abolition of parts of the “Disengagement Law” of 2005, which allows Israeli settlers to be present in areas in the northern West Bank that have been It was evacuated 18 years ago, within the framework of that plan, which, at the time, included the evacuation of Gush Katif settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank.

This abolition was agreed upon through coalition agreements, and the direct aim of it was to basically legalize the status of religious school students in the outpost "Homesh", which was evacuated in 2005. This school was established within the framework of the settlers' determination to brandish a "metaphorical world" in Apparently, this indicates what they consider the futility of dismantling the settlements in the lands of 1967, so this approved legal amendment came to make it a realistic, non-temporary existence.

Over the short period since this amendment, it has more and more strengthened the assessment that the farthest goal is for the current government to drive a final nail into the coffin of what is known as the "two-state solution", by declaring that the dismantling of any settlement in the occupied territories, as it was in accordance with For the disengagement plan, never again.

This was confirmed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview he gave to Fox News a few days ago, when he was asked to comment on a statement by the US State Department that considered the issue of the "Homesh" outpost as a violation of commitments made by Israel in exchange for the administration of former President George Bush. He said: "This is tantamount to endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Jews in their historical homeland." In 2016, Netanyahu described the possibility of evacuating Jewish settlers from the lands occupied since 1967 as "ethnic cleansing"!

Regarding the course of the disengagement plan, it was noted that, as a result of it, the Israeli right’s tendency towards appropriating the human rights discourse was strengthened in order to achieve several goals, most notably: ending the monopoly of any left-wing party on the issue of human rights in Israel; Improving the image of the occupying state. Right-wing organizations began resorting to claiming that forcibly evicting Jewish settlers from their homes is contrary to the human rights discourse. In recent years, opponents of the two-state solution have used human rights rhetoric against the evacuation of Jewish settlers from a specific area in order to establish a homogeneous Palestinian state on it.

In parallel with listing these facts, which we can consider new in the current period, there is a need to point out that Israel has been using settlements in the West Bank since the 1967 occupation to achieve the goal of curbing the establishment of a Palestinian state. It is a goal that stood behind all the settlement projects that were discussed, and not all of them went beyond the goal of dismembering the public space in the West Bank specifically, to make such a state as separate enclaves, with self-rule with limited powers and main resources, especially land and water.

In a new report by a human rights organization, an accurate description of the role distribution in this regard between the occupying state and the settlers was stated as follows: The state is the one who initiates, plans, and steals Palestinian land and undertakes construction and settlement tasks, and the settlers are taking several steps forward, in what appears to be contrary to the official plan and several laws. . Soon the state forgives and reconciles retroactively, and initiates new plans, and the settlers in turn steal more Palestinian land... And so on and so forth.