The author is a UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and a professor of law and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ISTANBUL As the one-year deadline of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) [1] looms imminent on Sept. 17 for the full withdrawal of Israel from all illegal settlements in occupied Palestine, one must ask: what will, can and must be done if the deadline passes without any meaningful change to the catastrophic status quo? What will