“They have totally exhausted the Palestinian people,” Mr Sider said.
“Starved them, impoverished them, and they will take all the land on a silver platter without shooting one bullet, unfortunately.”
He said as Ramadan approached, people were thinking about how they would feed their families.
“What do you want me to do? Confront a settler, or spend on my children?” Mr Sider said.
Ms Michaeli said she believed Israel’s plan was designed to capitalise on the economic hardship of Palestinians.
“I’m sure this is one of their intentions,” she said.
“Private ownership of land has been one of the extremely rare, very meagre measures Palestinians enjoyed … against Israeli encroachment.”
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Ms Michaeli said the idea of a two-state solution was evaporating as the world watched on.
“As long as the international community continues to repeat this mantra of a two-state solution, while not taking any action that could enable Palestinian territorial contiguity … we are going to live in a totally unrealistic fantasy.”