When the Palestinian Authority speaks about Israel’s settler-colonialism, it dilutes any possible impact immediately by mentioning the two-state compromise. During a joint press conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Ramallah, for example, PA Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki praised the Italian official for upholding the two-state paradigm. To this Tajani responded with the same rhetoric about supporting the two-state compromise and rejecting Israel’s settler-colonial expansion. According to Wafa news agency, Al-Maliki then “underscored the need to take practical steps to confront Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation against the indigenous Palestinian people and bring the crimes committed by the Israeli fascist government to an end.” Details are so important that the international community has ensured their erasure. … Continue reading The PA foreign minister’s contradictions support Israeli settler-colonialism