Senior Fellow Mouin Rabbani: Palestinians ‘more isolated than at any point since 1948’

Under cover of the Oslo agreements, Israel has during the past two decades consolidated and intensified its control of the occupied Palestinian territories to an unprecedented degree. Simultaneously, the Palestinian people are today more isolated and fragmented than at any point since their initial dispossession and dispersal in 1948. Their leaders, who once enjoyed levels of popular support that would be the envy of democratically elected heads of state, have today been reduced to illegitimate and widely reviled appendages of Israel’s colonial project.