Israel expanding 'de facto permanent apartheid' to carry out total Palestinian 'takeover'

Eve Irvine welcomes Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer and Department Head of Israeli studies at SOAS. As a historian of modern Palestine and Israel, he's watched decades of diplomatic frameworks collapse into something far more ominous. What we are witnessing now is not a gradual shift, but an accelerated unraveling of what was once called the two-state solution. The Oslo Accords have faded into the distance amid the institutional hollowing of Palestinian authority, the rise of settler violence, and the de facto annexation of the West Bank. The Israeli government's intent has become openly declared: a complete takeover of the Palestinian territories. They provoke, destabilize, and hope for an uprising to justify hardline responses.