As more Arab and Muslim states normalise relations with Israel, not only is its traditional claim of existential threat diminished, which has been used to justify unconditional American support, its relationship with the Arab and Muslim world will become more important, making violence and aggression against the Palestinians less tenable.
The Palestinian cause needs to be reset and it must be made known to Israel that the two-state solution can no longer be used to perpetrate crimes against Palestinians.
Israel should be expected to do what the community expects every other state in the world to do: respect human rights, the rule of law, equality and the full integration of the population of
historical Palestine into citizenry.
Conservative estimates revealed that 80,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israelis since 1948, and more than one-third of Palestinian casualties occurred since the Oslo Accords.
The ratio of fatalities averages six Palestinians to every Israeli.
Since the peace process' inception, Israel has rejected global opinion and relegated Palestinians to the status of mute and impotent observers.
The United States casts itself as a mediator while declaring its commitment and loyalty to Israel.
It is not surprising, then, that this framework for "peace" has resulted in a three-decade long massacre of Palestinians.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating crimes committed in the Occupied Territories since 2014, in what they call "The Situation in Palestine".
But Israel and the US are not part of ICC, which means we will never see an Israeli prosecuted in The Hague.
Two million out of nine million Israeli citizens are Palestinians.
The populations of Gaza and the Occupied West Bank equal roughly 5.3 million.
Meaning, in historical Palestine, at present, the Jewish and Arab populations are nearly equal, with slightly more Palestinians than Israeli Jews.
The fertility rate for Israeli women is 2.9 overall, but 1.6 for non-religious Jewish women.
The average fertility rate among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is 3.67 and around 3.0 among Israeli Arabs.
This suggests that Palestinians will be the majority in historical Palestine, with some expecting it to happen within 30 years.
As this demographic trend continues, one of two possibilities will occur.
In Israeli discourse, the Palestinian birth rate is spoken of explicitly in terms of it being a threat to the state's security and we can expect the Israeli government to respond with violence.
The alternative would be for Israel to become what it has long claimed to be: a democracy.
For this to unfold, the first thing that must happen is the abandonment of the two-state framework.
The inequality and racism that have defined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past 74 years have largely been enabled by this framework.
Insistence on a separate Palestinian state presupposes the acceptance of a Jewish state.
A Palestinian state, however, represents nothing more than recognition of the rights of the indigenous population, while a Jewish state is explicitly ethnocentric and colonialist in nature.
This distinction is overlooked in the two-state paradigm, which has perpetuated the Zionist occupation.
It must be discarded.
It is time for the international community to face and force Israel to face the "only" just solution for Palestinians: to transform Israel, Gaza and the West Bank into one democratic state with equal citizenship rights for all.
The transformation must include voting rights, right to hold office, equality of opportunity and the dismantling of Israel's apartheid system.
This solution has always been anathema to Israelis, but regional and global factors, along with demographic trends, are making the outcome inevitable.
The writer is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee, International Campaign To Defend Jerusalem
