3. Framework for Rights-Based Decolonization in Palestine Based on the aforementioned cases and critiques, it is necessary to adopt a framework for decolonization that deliberately tackles the root causes of the colonial-apartheid reality. Simultaneously, such a framework should be grounded in the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to selfdetermination and return, in order to not sustain hegemonic power dynamics. Entrenching the framework in a rights-based approach allows us to bridge the gap between decolonization and a political program for Palestinian liberation. Importantly, this series adopts the view that a rightsbased approach is synonymous with decolonization, implying that an apt decolonization approach is necessarily rights-based, as it is virtually impossible to fulfill the Palestinian people’s rights without uprooting the pillars of Israeli domination. It is also correspondingly inconceivable to eradicate apartheid and colonization unless the Israeli regime as a whole is dismantled and a new system grounded in equal rights for all is established. Accordingly, in the Palestine case, a rights-based decolonization framework is three-tiered in that it encompasses: (1) dismantling the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime in all of Mandatory Palestine inclusive of the structures that enable and reinforce its functioning; (2) remedying and reversing the impacts of Israel’s colonial-apartheid laws, policies, and practices specifically through providing reparations that fulfill the Palestinian people’s rights; (3) and developing a new rights-based political structure in Mandatory Palestine that guarantees human rights for all, ensures stability, welfare, and development, and integrates mechanisms for reconciliation and justice. Decolonization as such is brought about by anticolonial resistance and through the realization of all means necessary as guaranteed and 20