Timor-Leste and the Future of Palestine: Lessons in Freedom and the Failure of Power

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“We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state.” With those words, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich abandoned any remaining pretense. What he announced on February 10, 2026, was not merely another policy adjustment, but a deliberate escalation, one that is designed to make it even easier for Jewish settlers to dispossess Palestinians of their land, permanently and irreversibly. Smotrich’s declaration reads less like...