Thus, the international community must distance itself from this “peace process,” which has evidently been designed to legitimize the colonial enterprise, as it completely undermines the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights and discredits the legitimacy and willingness of the international community to support the just and legitimate liberation of all other territories and peoples’ struggle against colonial oppression. Instead, it must adhere to a human rights-based approach to conflict resolution as a means to respect and ensure rights for all people living in Mandatory Palestine as well as those in exile who are due to return. This includes realizing that colonialism has been the guiding axiom of the Zionist-Israeli enterprise, operating at the expense of Palestinian self-determination. Failing to acknowledge the colonial intents behind Israel’s apartheid, forced displacement, and dispossession policies and practices allows for the normalization of Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right to self-determination. Bringing forward the settlercolonial paradigm will allow international law to effectively address the root causes for the perpetuation of the Palestine Question and promote decolonization to achieve Palestinian self-determination. By means of advancing such a human rights-based approach, self-determination in Mandate Palestine will be available for all people, irrespective of religion or race, in a new nation based on equal rights. Importantly, enabling the Palestinian people to practice their right to selfdetermination does not contradict ensuring that all human rights of the current Jewish-Israeli colonizers are guaranteed, as they will become citizens of the future state in Mandatory Palestine. In view of the above, BADIL calls on the third state parties to: 16 · Recognize Mandatory Palestine as a unified non-self-governing territory and advocate for its inclusion under the United Nations list of non-selfgoverning territories; · Recognize Israel as a colonial and apartheid regime and take practical measures for the dismantlement of this regime and its structures that are the origin of the fragmentation of Mandatory Palestine, the denial of the Palestinian right to self-determination, and the deprivation of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons from their right of return; in essence, advocate for the decolonization of Palestine; · Promote a human rights-based approach to the decolonization process