The Palestinian Struggle After the Peace Process: What Comes After Broken Promises?

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The so-called peace process is over.

Not because Palestinians walked away from diplomacy, but because decades of negotiations led nowhere—while the occupation only grew stronger, settlements expanded, and hope withered under blockade, bullets, and bulldozers.

Today, Palestinians are not in a post-conflict reality.

They are in a post-lie reality—where the world sees the failure of peace talks for what they truly were: cover for continued apartheid.

 

The Illusion of Peace

For 30 years, Palestinians were told to negotiate. To wait. To be patient. To be nonviolent. To “earn” a state by proving their worthiness to those who occupied them.

The Oslo Accords were supposed to lead to a Palestinian state by 1999. Instead, they created the Palestinian Authority, a limited government with no sovereignty, no borders, and no control over its airspace, water, or movement.

Meanwhile:

• Illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank tripled.

• East Jerusalem was annexed and ethnically cleansed.

• Gaza was turned into the world’s largest open-air prison.

The so-called peace process wasn’t broken. It was designed this way.

 

Today’s Struggle: Existence Is Resistance

Now, Palestinians face a new phase of struggle—not for a peace deal, but for liberation. For return. For recognition not just of a state, but of existence.

This is the current reality:

• Over 2 million people in Gaza face starvation under total siege.

• West Bank villages are attacked by settlers while the army looks away—or joins in.

• Palestinian citizens of Israel live under second-class status.

• Refugees across Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria still wait for the right to return home.

• Journalists and human rights workers are arrested, blacklisted, and bombed.

• Children are buried next to the schools they never got to graduate from.

This is not a conflict.

This is colonialism, apartheid, and slow-motion genocide.

 

The Peace Process Is Dead. But Palestine Lives.

The world now sees what Palestinians have known all along:

Negotiations without justice are just performance.

The international community watched 30 years of failed talks and offered no consequences for Israel’s violations. Instead of peace, it delivered normalization. Instead of freedom, it offered fences.

But despite all this, Palestinians continue to exist.

They create. They resist. They rebuild. They mourn.

And they demand the world stop seeing them as a “problem”—and start seeing them as a people.

 

What the Struggle Looks Like Now

The fight for Palestine is no longer centered around backroom diplomacy.

It lives in:

• The voices of students occupying universities across the world.

• The art painted on refugee camp walls in Jenin and Dheisheh.

• The rallies from Cape Town to Copenhagen shouting “Ceasefire now!”

• The boycott movements refusing to fund oppression.

• The keffiyeh worn proudly, even when it’s banned.

• The phone cases, t-shirts, and banners that say “We Are All Palestine.”

This is no longer about waiting for peace.

It’s about building pressure.

Building power.

Building a future on Palestinian terms.

 

From Resistance to Return

The dream of return has never died.

Every refugee child still knows their family’s village name.

Every map still holds the erased town.

Every lullaby still remembers the land.

The struggle today is to restore what was taken, not just what was negotiated.

It’s a demand for decolonisation, not coexistence under inequality.

It’s a demand for justice, not charity.

It’s a demand for freedom, not another round of failed promises.

 

Palestine Will Be Free—Not Because of Diplomacy, But Because of Determination

The world may have moved on from the peace process, but Palestine is not an abandoned cause. It is the moral front line of our time.

To support Palestine today is not to hope for handshakes on white house lawns.

It’s to support the right to return.

The right to resist.

The right to be free.

And we will say it as long as it takes:

From the river to the sea—Palestine will be free.

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