The UN Secretary-General has recently observed that the Palestinians’ right to build their own state must be recognized by all stakeholders and the global community. While addressing the Non-Aligned Movement summit, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted that the refusal to accept a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable. According to him, such a stance would indefinitely prolong the conflict that has become a major risk to global peace and security, exacerbate polarization, and embolden extremism everywhere in the world.
There is an ongoing conspiracy and debate in the Western media regarding the Palestinian statehood that was forcefully snatched by the Jews and their long-held ally and infamous colonial power, the UK dating back to the 1940s through the creation of the illegal state of Israel. Since then, countless Palestinians have been killed, and millions have been pushed out of their homes and living in exile in refugee camps in neighbouring countries and elsewhere in the world. In fact, the ongoing bloodshed in the Palestinian Gaza territory was prompted by the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas fighters. The Hamas attack was out of frustration and utter disappointment due to decades-long Israeli occupation and betrayal of the global community particularly the neighbouring Arab states who normalized their ties with Tel Aviv one by one leaving bereaved Palestinians alone.
During the current Gaza conflict, a single Hamas attack killed about 1,140 people, most of them Israeli civilians, whereas, Israel’s relentless bombardment and ground offensive since then have killed at least 24,927 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. Meanwhile, Israel’s unceasing bombardment turned the thickly populated enclave into robles and continuous sieged, urban battles and reckless intimidation compelled more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population to forced displacement to other areas. Unfortunately, the rogue Israeli regime still opposes the creation of a viable Palestinian state on the principle of a two-state solution, in line with the UN resolutions on the Palestine issue. Furthermore, the Israeli government aims to entirely remove Hamas from Gaza seeking the permanent role of the Israeli military in thickly populated Muslim-majority territory. Such oppressive policies and unlawful actions do not guarantee peace and security for Israel as well as Palestinians who have been compelled to suffer and react to such oppression over the past seven and a half decades.
Historically, the entire global community except a few countries including the US and the UK have condemned Tel Aviv’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land and support the Palestinians’ right to build their state on their own land. The Non-Aligned Movement has recently strongly condemned the illegal Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip and called for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire. The forum also called for the independence and sovereignty of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, to achieve a two-state solution.
Historically, the primary responsibility lies with the UN, which must differentiate the Palestine resistance movement from terrorism and stress Israel to implement UN Secuirty Council (UNSC) resolution on the Palestine dispute on an urgent basis so an Independent Palestinian state could be formed as early as possible. That is the only way forward to ensure peace and enhance stability in the Middle East region. If Natenyaho’s doctrine is ever implemented, it will give birth to anarchy, and promote further extremism and violence, while no power could guarantee peace and a safe haven for Israelis in the coming years and decades until Palestine issue is resolved legitimately.
