Efforts to recognize the State of Palestine must not ignore the absence of an influential Israeli party willing to support a two-state solution.

Hamas and the PA rule Gaza and the West Bank respectively through their security forces and without any legitimacy, yet Israel’s judiciary “reform” will worsen the situation by destroying any hope for peace and for the emergence of a democratic Palestinian regime.

One may question whether Israel is an apartheid state but there is no question that it is getting closer to that definition.