Israel expanding ‘de facto permanent apartheid’ to carry out total Palestinian ‘takeover’

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcomes Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer and Department Head of Israeli Studies at SOAS. As a historian of modern Palestine and Israel, he’s witnessed decades of diplomatic frameworks collapse into something far more ominous. What we are witnessing now is an accelerated unraveling of what was once called the two-state solution. The Oslo Accords have faded into the distance amid the institutional hollowing of Palestinian authority, the rise of settler violence, and the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Is Israeli intent a complete takeover of the Palestinian territories?