The notion that only the two-state solution offers a feasible direction for ending the Israel–Palestine conflict has prevailed for many years in international diplomacy, Western media discourse, and state-sponsored peace talks. In Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe completely disassembles this myth, arguing that rather than leading to peace, the two-state framework perpetuates and justifies Israeli settler colonialism while concealing the realities of apartheid and dispossession (Pappe, 2017, p. 133).

Pappe’s key argument is that the two-state solution, supported by Israel and Western powers, does not guarantee a sovereign, contiguous Palestinian state. Rather, what is on offer consists of fractured enclaves—spatially and politically isolated Bantustans resembling those of apartheid South Africa. He explains how even the Oslo Accords, which ostensibly promoted Palestinian statehood, institutionalized a framework........

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