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We live in a dynamic world, and in this region the pace of change is only accelerating. Future analyses and predictions must take this expected change into account and must not be reduced to mere extrapolations from things as they are now. All possibilities must be examined, and plans should be drawn for all scenarios that might arise. Despite the changes on the ground, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and the broader Middle East, there are Palestinians, Israelis, Americans and Europeans still talking about the two-state solution, or the resumption of negotiations. It is as if they are isolated from reality and don’t know that Jewish settlement activities in the OPT have killed every opportunity for a political solution based upon the option of the two-state solution, and that the entire Middle East is going through a drastic process of change which has not yet matured. Israel’s continued disengagement from the political process is the outcome of the fact that Israeli society is undergoing an utterly unbalanced social and religious ideological change, in which all it sees is the fulfillment of the Zionist dream with complete denial and contempt for non-Jews in general and the Palestinians in particular.
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