Debate around Israel’s occupation of Palestine often revolves around the two-state solution — one state for Palestinians, another for Israelis. Currently, there is a single state in historic Palestine: the apartheid state of Israel. A web of walls, settlements, and a legal system of discrimination gives Israel full reign of the land, sea, and air.

Former executive director of US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Yusef Munayyer writes: “the simple truth is that over the decades, the Israelis developed enough power and cultivated enough support from Washington to allow them to occupy and hold the territories and to create, in effect, a one-state reality of their own devising.” Israelis have obstructed the formation of a second, Palestinian state anywhere in Palestine. That second state is off the table.

So the question now is not how many states, but rather what kind of state it will be: an apartheid state privileging Jewish Israelis over Palestinians, or a democracy for all its people?