The US seems to have officially confirmed that the two-state solution is 100% dead. They support the plan to include the entire West Bank into Greater Israel. (This is the new administration’s pick for UN Ambassador but I think we can take that as the official view of the new administration). The Guardian says that this policy is at odds with “international consensus regarding Israeli settlements in occupied territories” but, let us be honest. It has been EU and UK policy for a long time, (since the Oslo accords at least), to support a two-state solution. But, during this period Israel has relentlessly expanded settlements and the EU and UK have done nothing to prevent this – despite being in a strong position to pressurise Israel not to. In effect, that is based on their actions rather than their words, this is really the policy of the EU and UK as well.
Which – leaves the question. Where are the Palestinians now in the West Bank supposed to go? In reality – one expects that the practical hope on the part of Smotrich et al. is that the Palestinians currently in the West Bank, will either vanish into thin air, or move to Jordan or some other Arab country. Meanwhile, Gaza will continue to be rendered uninhabitable and life unbearable, in the hope that the Palestinians left alive there will move to Egypt or fall into the Mediterranean. The plan is indeed Greater Israel. The US is behind this. The EU and UK don’t demur.
In these circumstances it is not surprising that there is resistance. Do the proponents of Greater Israel believe that they can simply smash the Palestinians so completely that they can eliminate all resistance? If you look around the world, the evidence is that this is not going to work. There are many examples of resistance from groups who are similarly oppressed. Even when denied a geographical homeland the resistance continues in the form of terrorism.
In the short term this does not bode well for the ceasefire. In the longer term it looks like the trajectory is more expansion by Israel and they believe that they can manage the security problems which result.