Therefore, the Palestinian people, as the people of Palestine, have the right to achieve their inalienable rights in the land. Accordingly, they are the agents who can and should define the pathways and implement the tools necessary to achieve liberation. Nonetheless, during the process of decolonization, the current Jewish-Israeli colonizers can contribute to the liberation of Palestine, inasmuch as they are willing to surrender their colonizer privileges and to actively play a role in dismantling the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime. This is critical considering that postdecolonization, both Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis will constitute the people of the newly liberated Palestine. 2.2. The Legal Framework for Decolonization Prohibition on colonization emerged gradually in the nineteenth and twentieth century as a result of the spread of national liberation movements and anticolonial resistance throughout the colonies, the exhaustion of European funds for sustaining direct imperial rule and imperial rivalries, and the influx of African and Asian states into the United Nations.40 Only in the 1960s, however, was this prohibition codified in the Decolonization Declaration. Most of the rules and provisions have acquired the status of customary international law before their codification in the Declaration, and therefore, the Decolonization Declaration itself has gained customary legal status. In regards to defining colonization, the Decolonization Declaration does not explicitly provide a definition, but its language does emphasize the practices associated with colonialism which herein characterize a colonial regime. These are: (a) the denial of self-determination (i.e., impeding the social, cultural, and economic development of peoples);41 40 Angela Loschke, ‘The United Nations between “old boys’ club” and a changing world order: The South African-Indian dispute at the United Nations, 1945–1955’ in Nicole Eggers, Jessica Lynne Pearson, and Aurora Almada e Santos (eds), The United Nations and Decolonization (Routledge 2020), 85. 41 Decolonization Declaration (n 25). 12