“You said that a fully sovereign Palestinian state was never offered.”

I never said that. Indeed it runs counter to my entire argument about ethnonationalist states in general.

The partition was externally imposed on Palestine and its people. A third of its people found the partition agreeable and desirable. Two thirds, many of whom would be dispossessed under the partition, naturally found it disagreeable. Extremists on both sides fought to prevent over its implementation, with the extremists on the Zionist side becoming the leaders of the new Israeli state.

There was never an attempt to create a multiethnic or federalist state such that the creation of an ethnically exclusive state became the only goal. Such a conception of the state problematizes ethnic outsiders and often leads to the ethnic cleansing and genocidd that followed (and continues to this day).

Partition never solved this problem, it only internalized it in the new Israeli state, and it continues to haunt the Zionist project. At some point the question of citizenship status and human rights of all people under effective Israeli authority must be addressed.