Additional countries could endorse the roadmap for a comprehensive vision that ends the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through the two-state solution, while leaving questions on the borders of the Palestinian state, settlements, and the fate of Jerusalem to negotiations between the two sides. That is why French President Emmanuel Macron has taken the initiative, which was followed by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announcing his country’s intention to recognize the Palestinian state and support the two-state solution.
The UN Conference on a Two-State Solution, backed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and France, has presented a roadmap that the UN General Assembly is likely to adopt, especially in light of what essentially amounts to a US green light. When Trump was asked about the New York conference, he said the attendees could “Do what they want,” despite the absence of both the US and Israel.
Looking back, the West had, at one point, encouraged Jewish citizens to migrate to the land of Palestine and fabricated for them the story of Israel and the Chosen People, despite the total lack evidence (in either the Old or New Testament) that the “People of God” were the Jews who came to or were displaced to Palestine in 1948.
Even if we were to accept this erroneous premise, we would find that the “People of God” mentioned in scripture are those who worship the Lord- whoever worships God is one of His people. Indeed, Paul wrote to the Romans: “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are Abraham's descendants are they all his children.”
One policy that has fueled social isolation and hindered the two communities’ integration into a single state is the separation wall, which the Israeli government tries to market to the world as a security barrier. In reality, it is nothing but a wall of a prison that is home to a hungry and displaced population who have suffered for more than fifty years. Moreover, a climate of rabid racism has produced Zionist fanaticism that feeds on a distorted law claimed to have come from the Lord in the Torah of Moses, peace be upon him.
A form of racism fueled by a legacy of religious radicalism promoted by a Zionist establishment that has empowered terrorist groups (such as Kach, Irgun, Yeshiva, Kahane, The Temple Mount Faithful, Stern Gangs, and many others) stands in the way of integration. These groups view other people as inferior beings.
The extremists on both sides present a major obstacle. On the Israeli side, there are those who reject coexistence, peace, and the very idea of a Palestinian state on what they consider biblical land (“Judea and Samaria”). “We must possess all the biblical land,” Moshe Dayan stressed- even Jericho, which has always been cursed in their scripture: “Cursed is he who rebuilds Jericho with stone.”
On the other side, there are extremists who want to throw the population of present-day Israel into the sea. For all these reasons, the idea of living together in one state is a nonstarter. Thus, the two-state solution is the only viable path to the future.
It is for these same reasons that Yitzhak Rabin and later, Yasser Arafat, were assassinated. The two men shared the Nobel Peace Prize because they believed in the two-state solution. One was gunned down by an extremist, and the other was besieged and ultimately killed by the same military and intelligence establishment that had killed his partner in peace, Rabin. Today, this same establishment is led by extremists who believe only in war, on land, at sea, and in the air, against a defenseless and unarmed population that cannot even water the crops ruined by Israeli tanks.
Historically, Israeli governments have sought to hollow out peace initiatives, delaying implementation by splitting them into multiple phases, and ultimately respecting less than ten percent of the agreement’s stipulations. That’s why it is imperative to bind the Israeli government to the international consensus on the two-state solution; otherwise, we would merely be plowing the sea.
