UN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution

The New York Declaration (Declaration) issued at the conclusion of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, held in New York City under the joint chairmanship of Saudi Arabia and France on 27-29 July – marks the beginning of the self-destruction of the United Nations.

The Declaration states:

“28. We emphasised that commitment to the United Nations Charter and respect for international law are fundamental pillars of peace and security in the region.” 

Yet the Declaration trashes these fundamental pillars by totally ignoring:

·       The legal right of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza under articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandate).

·       Article  80 of the United Nations Charter - which preserves the aforementioned rights vested in the Jewish people under the Mandate 

Failure to recognize these vested Jewish rights  has also seen the two-state solutions proposed in Security Council Resolutions 2334 (2016) and 2735 (2024) remain unimplemented.

Yet one solution recognizing these vested Jewish rights is the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published in the Saudi Arabia government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 – authored by an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. 

The United Nations has refused to even acknowledge the existence of HKOPS or to consider its possible implementation to end this ongoing unresolved 100-years conflict.

Gaza’s invasion of Israel on 7 October 2023 and the ensuing unresolved Israel-Gaza War could possibly have been avoided had negotiations been commenced between Israel and Jordan to divide sovereignty of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza  between their two respective states - as called for by HKOPS.

The Israel-Gaza war has since been expanded with Israel being attacked by long range ballistic missiles indiscriminately fired into Israeli population centres from Yemen and Iran.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to escalate as Hamas refuses to surrender and the United Nations keeps 1.5 Million refugees penned in 7 Gaza refugee camps instead of removing them to 50 other camps located outside Gaza.

The drafters of the United Nations Charter included article 80 to ensure that the unfinished business of self-determination for the Jewish people laid out in the Mandate for Palestine did not disappear with the disbandment of the League of Nations in 1945. 

The Palestinian People had not rated a mention in the Mandate for one simple reason: No such “People” existed until 1964 when the founding Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization created and defined this “People” - whilst simultaneously expressly disclaiming sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza. 

In 1975 the UN General Assembly first displayed its contempt for the rights vested in the Jewish people when it established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) - and requested it to recommend a programme of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced. The General Assembly established the Division for Palestinian Rights as its secretariat and, throughout the years, has gradually expanded the Committee’s mandate and its vitriolic attacks condemning Israel.

Israel’s Parliament rejected any two-state solution on 23 July by a majority of 71-13.

While the UN seeks a state for the Palestinian people on land promised to the Jewish People under the Mandate and article 80 of the UN Charter – this long- running conflict will continue and the United Nations will become increasingly irrelevant in resolving it.

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