There are a number of issues that the occupation government is escalating: settlement expansion and demolition orders against Palestinian buildings; daily arrests of Palestinians, some of which are accompanied by heinous murders, as in the case of the martyr Dalia Al-Samoudi in Jenin; and attacking Jerusalem institutions and the attempt to reduce the Palestinian presence in the city.

It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that “Israelis want peace” and do not support their government’s policies of oppression against the Palestinians and other Arabs peoples.

Recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the potential responses European Union states are mulling in response to an Israeli annexation of territory in the West Bank

Everything starts with the Palestinian people and all options are now open in this decade of clarity and renewal.

The proposed annexation of the West Bank is not the exception but the rule when it comes to Israel's decades-long dispossession of the Palestinians – the only difference is this time, they're not pretending.

Palestinian businessman Talal Abu Ghazaleh once said, “I was forced to succeed, I had no other choice.” When I heard this on a TV programme I stopped in my tracks. His words summarise the distinct approach of the Palestinian people, among the most educated identifiable group of people in the world. Despite everything that is being done to them, and happening around them — Israel’s occupation and military incursions; the Covid-19 pandemic; economic meltdown — they still manage to succeed. Amidst