Towards a one-state solution

August 11, 2025

I commend Kym Davey for making the case that Hamas should participate in future negotiations for a Palestine state, but what has been entirely absent from the discussion is, what state, where? Since 1948, the amount of land that Palestinians occupy has shrunk from 45% to less than 15% today, and Israel is determined to occupy and annex the rest.

As Craig Mokhiber, the former New York director for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said: “The mantra of the ‘two-state solution’ has become an open joke in the corridors of the UN, both for its utter impossibility in fact, and for its total failure to account for the inalienable human rights of the Palestinian people.”

After 75 years of the Zionist project, it has become glaringly obvious that any notion of a two-state solution has become little more than a fig leaf to justify Israel’s apartheid regime and that the only way forward is one secular democratic state that safeguards fundamental rights and provides equality for all of its citizens – Palestinians, Jews and Christians alike.