The two-state compromise facilitates the international community’s alienation from the repercussions faced by Palestinians as a result of Israel’s ongoing settler-colonialism and violence. Imagining Palestine through the imposed (and moribund) two-state framework creates desensitisation from the suffering of the Palestinian people, which is almost never brought into the spotlight when diplomats speak about Israeli aggression against Gaza, for example, or the consequences of forced displacement and illegal settlement expansion. The international community wants instead to publicise its diplomacy, which simplifies and dehumanises Palestinians. When reports about Palestinian suffering do emerge, and they do so regularly, it is a pity that some are marred by quoting the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as in the recent detailed report titled “Trapped: The impact … Continue reading Israel’s colonial violence must be named as the cause of Palestinian suffering