The only negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians likely to lead to a lasting peace are those that are based on law and justice, not on the grossly unequal balance of power between the two parties.

Assuming that Israeli leaders genuinely want peace-and this is a major assumption- their vision of peace is based not on justice for the Palestinians but on security for their colonial enterprise. This is in the sense that they want no resistance to their plans for continued colonisation of Palestinian land, security for their settlers, and unchallenged hegemony both in Palestine and in the region.

the Israelis continue their collective punishment of Palestinian civilians. On September 19, the Israeli cabinet decided to limit the electricity and fuel supply to Gaza and to further restrict movement in and out of Gaza. Seven Israeli human rights organizations jointly condemned these sanctions as “a grave breach of the foremost principle of international humanitarian law