Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always been an open book, although he is skilled at twisting facts and rewriting history when necessary, he has been very clear about his relations with the Palestinians from day one, and the United States cannot claim to have been surprised by his strategy regarding the Washington-backed peace formula of a two-state solution and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank that is supposed to be the future Palestinian state.

Most, if not all, of Netanyahu's ideas were developed while he was a student in the U.S. After graduating, he was given a platform to express his vision of a "final solution" to the "Palestinian issue," and the American elite praised his brilliance and eloquence.

In a video available on YouTube filmed in 1978 as part of a local debate program on Boston television called "The Advocate," Netanyahu presented his views as a "witness" on whether the United States should support the creation of a Palestinian state, and compared to his most recent interview on CNN with Jake Tapper, the ideas he presented in 1978 are clearly the same ones he holds today.

Basically, Netanyahu has his own version of history: Jews like him have been living in their homeland for 3,500 years, and the Palestinians want to uproot them.

In fact, if Jews had lived in Palestine in this period, as he claims, they would have been Palestinian Jews (as some are), not Europeans from Ukraine and Poland.

If the Jews were once uprooted from Palestine, as the Bible says, it was not done by "Arabs" as is often claimed, but by the Romans, and the truth is that it was the Palestinians who were and still are uprooted from their homeland in an ethnic cleansing carried out by Zionists like Netanyahu.

But dispelling Netanyahu's historical lies and distortions is not my intention in this article. Rather, I want to try to understand his definition of peace in general and with the Palestinians in particular.

His ideas have remained more or less the same throughout his political life: Palestinians do not have the right to self-determination, only Jews do, Palestinians do not deserve their own state because Jordan is already Palestine, Palestinians always define themselves as part of the Arab nation and want a real state, so they have to go to Jordan or any other Arab country and stay there, and if they decide to stay in the West Bank, "Judea and Samaria," the heart of the Jewish nation, Netanyahu claims, they may eventually have social and economic rights and the opportunity to have their own administration with "Israel" controlling the land and security rights, but this will happen only after a final peace agreement is reached.

Moreover, Netanyahu believes that the West Bank is not occupied territory as defined by international law and the UN, but "disputed" territory, the illegal settlements established in the West Bank remain, and Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank - also illegal according to UN resolutions and international law - are merely "Jewish communities" of Israeli citizens, and he will not expel them from "Judea and Samaria."

Until this mythical peace deal is reached, Netanyahu believes that the PA must fight its own people and work hard to protect Israel, even when Israeli security forces and settlers kill them and demolish their homes and villages.

In this twisted scenario, the Palestinians have to wait until Israel makes peace with all Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, and only then will they find themselves obligated to reach a "viable peace agreement" with Israel.

No matter who comes to the region, whether it's Secretary of State Antony Blinken or even his boss, President Joe Biden, nothing will change for the Palestinians, and Washington's discussions about Palestine and Israel will always be a debate within the Zionist camp, and only Zionists need to step forward to participate.

You don't need to be from a Jewish background like Blinken or his spokesperson Ned Price to be a Zionist, Christians like Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are Zionists, there are even Muslim Zionists while many critics of extreme and racist Zionism are Jewish.

However, open debates about Israel and Zionism see both the state and its racist ideology mixed with Jews and Judaism and lead to critics being labeled as anti-Semitic, and we have seen the absurdity of labeling anti-Zionist Jews as "anti-Semites" for their political opposition to Israel's apartheid regime.

Throwing around the labels "terrorist" and "traitor," a toxic mix of insults meant to stifle free and open discussion about the state of Israel and Zionism, look at what happened to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, when she was recently removed from the US Congress' Foreign Affairs Committee for publicly criticizing Israel.

The debate in the United States is never about justice, because that approach might end up giving something to the Palestinians, it's always about how to make Israel achieve its goal, which is to occupy all of Palestine and become an integral part of the Middle East, and when American officials talk about peace it means Israel's version of peace, and only Israel, because the others don't really matter.

After more than 70 years of broken promises from the United States and the international community, Palestinians are left alone to their fate and should expect nothing from Americans or anyone else, they have only one realistic option left open to them: Pursue their freedom in the best way they know how.