Israel/Palestine

The Trump/Netanyahu alliance could finally kill all hope for a two-state solution, once and for all. I'm of the belief that the two-state solution has effectively been dead for years, but nominally that is still the goal.

The illusion that there were still negotiations for a two-state solution allowed Israel to maintain an apartheid state, using as an excuse the idea that the apartheid was temporary until the negotiations were complete. But now with Trump, and with David Friedman as ambassador, the illusion is gone. Friedman, along with a lot of the Israeli right, wants a permanent apartheid state.

That's where things could get sticky. In the short term, with Trump as an ally, Israel can go right ahead with settlements, occupation, apartheid, because nobody is going to stop them.

But in the longer term, there is the question of how long the world will continue to accept Israel as a permanent apartheid state. It's not guaranteed that the US will always have a far-right government.