𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞

-- Nasir Khan

There are some governments who are considering to recognise the Palestinian State. Such a recognition is only a gesture in the right direction. But that will not bring into existence a Palestinian State. More needs to be done to produce what this recognition will achieve just symbolically. There are not many governments in the West and the Middle East that are interested in doing what is needed to redress the tragic situation for the people of Palestine.

Regarding the theoretical questions of a one-state or a two-state solution in historic Palestine, one thing should be made clear to all the advocates and followers of such solutions, that we are confronted with some deep-rooted practical problems. We cannot avoid facing the questions about the alignment of forces in the world, over which the Zionists have power and dominance. Keeping in view this reality, we can say that as long as Israel is a Zionist state, there will never be a one-state (a secular, socialist-democratic state for all) in historic Palestine. Neither will Zionists ever accept a two-state solution as long as they have power in their colonial-settler entity.

Where does that leave the colonised people of Palestine with the further recognition of the Palestine state? Obviously, that is not going to change anything for them.