The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah

The U.N. is convening a high-level conference to discuss the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine next week .

The two -state solution has become little more than a diplomatic theater, an incantation repeated with no intention, even according to its most passionate supporters.

Israel approved the largest land theft in the West Bank in over three decades , further fragmenting the occupied territory and obliterating any meaningful prospect for a sovereign Palestinian state.

In Palestine , this slogan speaks to a deeper truth: with or without statehood, the Palestinian cause will endure if its origins are not addressed. Reckoning with the Nakba is a prerequisite for justice, let alone peace. Until states face this basic premise and act on it the reality on the ground will continue to defy any high-level diplomatic gathering. The two -state solution will remain what it has always been: a delusion. - Rabea Eghbariah is a human rights lawyer and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School .