Mr. Omar Barghouti:

In the BDS movement, we do not adopt any position on two states versus one state because we stick to rights. As a human rights movement, we stick to the basis three rights: ending the occupation, ending the system of Apartheid and the right of return.

My personal opinion is that the two-state solution has not been feasible for quite some time. Especially with the Trump-Netanyahu far-right alliance and the support of the far right around the world, it has become even less possible than ever before. In reality, we have one state already, one Apartheid state, with different rights allocated to different groups depending on their ethnicity and religion. This was seen as extremely racist and frowned upon by the entire world when it was the case in South Africa but it is tolerated by almost all states today around the world while it is happening in Palestine. We already have one state under Israeli control with Apartheid laws applying to Palestinians. Even Palestinian citizens of present-day Israel suffer from more than 65 discriminatory laws. Even if we forget the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, including East Jerusalem, for now, we still have a system of Apartheid within Israel itself. It is not so feasible.

The main point is not theoretically. It is, what is needed to push for a just peace? The world is stuck in a dogmatic obsession with two states and one, and this is not the real issue. The real issue is rights. In the Oslo Accords, the big omission was of human rights. There was no mention of human rights in the entire Oslo agreement between the PLO and Israel. What the world needs to push Israel to accept is that it has to meet its obligations under international law and respect Palestinian rights. That is the main element that is missing.

The second point is accountability. Israel has total impunity. It is drunk with power, given Trump's blanket support. Without accountability, it will not only endanger our very existence as a nation in our homeland, but endanger the entire region and, therefore, the world.