UN (AP) – The UN General Assembly this week brings together high-level officials to promote two states’ solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decades ago, which line up their people and live peacefully in independent countries.
Israel and its close allies are boycotting a two-day meeting, co-chaired by foreign ministers of France and Saudi Arabia, beginning Monday. Israel’s right-wing government is opposed to the two states’ solution, calling the US “counter effect” to its efforts to close the conference. War in Gaza. France and Saudi Arabia hope to see the conference as the only viable roadmap for peace and start working on measures to get there.
The meeting has been postponed It was downgraded from a four-day meeting of world leaders since late June amid a surge in tensions in the Middle East, including the 12-day war between Iran and Iran and the war in Gaza.
“It was absolutely necessary to resume the political process, the two-state solution, the two-state solution, which is more threatened than today,” French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrotto said on Sunday that he was “facing the people.”
Here are some useful things to know about upcoming gatherings:
Why is the solution to the two states?
The idea of dividing sacred sites dates back decades.
When the British orders against Palestine ended, the 1947 United Nations Division Programme envisaged the division of territory to be divided into Jews and Arab countries. Israel accepted the plan, but the following year, with Israel’s declaration of independence, the Arab neighbors declared war, and the plan was never implemented. Under the truce of 1949, Jordan ruled the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Egypt more than Gaza.
Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 Middle East War. Palestinians, alongside Israel, are seeking those lands for future independent states, and this idea of a two-state solution based on Israel’s pre-1967 boundaries, is the basis for peace negotiations dating back to the 1990s.
The two state solutions have a wide range of international support. The logic behind it is that it is equally divided between the Jews and Palestinians, along with the Israeli population, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
The establishment of an independent Palestine leaves Israel as a democratic nation with a solid Jewish majority, giving Palestinians a dream of self-determination.
Why are you holding this meeting?
France and Saudi Arabia say they want to highlight the solutions of the two states as the only viable path to peace in the Middle East. End the war in Gaza.
In a document sent to UN members in May, the co-chair said the main goal of the conference was to implement solutions for the two states by identifying actions by “all relevant actors.”
Saudi diplomat Manal Radwan, who led the country’s delegation to a preparatory meeting, said the meeting should “chart the course for action, not for reflection.” It must be “fixed into a reliable, irreversible political programme that addresses the root causes of conflict and provides a real path to peace, dignity and mutual security,” she said.
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for a broader move towards a solution for the two states, along with recognizing the right to protect Israel itself. He announced it late Thursday France recognizes the Palestinian province It officially became a member of the world leaders’ annual meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in late September.
Approximately 145 countries recognize Palestine. But Macron’s announcement, ahead of Monday’s meeting, began dying from starvation amid rising global rage against desperately hungry people in Gaza, making France the most important Western force to do so.
What is Israel’s view?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the two states’ solution on both nationalism and security grounds.
Netanyahu’s religious and nationalist bases view the West Bank as the biblical and historical home of Jews, while Israel’s Jews see Jerusalem as the predominantly eternal capital. To the east of the city is the most sacred sites of Judaism, along with the main sacred sites of Christianity and Muslims.
Hardline Israelis like Netanyahu believe that Palestinians do not want peace, cite the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, and most recently the Gaza takeover of Hamas two years after Israel retreated from its territory in 2005.
At the same time, Israel is opposed to solutions that allow Jews to lose their majority. Netanyahu’s preference appears to be current. Israel maintains overall rule, and the Israelites have more full rights than the Palestinians. Israel has deepened control by expanding its reconciliation, and Palestinian authority limits the autonomy of its West Bank pocket.
Netanyahu criticized Macron’s announcement of Palestinian perception, saying it “rewards the fear and risk of creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza did.”
What is Palestinian view?
Palestinians labelling the current arrangement “apartheid” have repeatedly accused Israel of undermining peace initiatives by deepening the construction of a settlement in the West Bank and threatening annexation. That would harm the outlook An adjacent Palestinian state And their outlook for independence.
Ahmed Majdarani, a member of the PLO Executive Committee and parent company of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the meeting will serve as a preparation for the expected Presidential Summit in September. UN diplomats said it will take place on the sidelines of high-level conferences in France or the United Nations.
Majdalani said Palestinians had several goals, initially having “a serious international political process leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Palestinians also seek further international recognition of the state by major countries, including the UK. But he expects it to happen in September, not Monday’s meeting, Majdarani said. He said they wanted economic and financial support to Palestinian authority and international support for the reconstruction and recovery of the Gaza Strip.
What happens and doesn’t happen in the meeting?
All 193 UNs have been invited to attend the meeting, with French diplomats saying that around 40 ministers are expected. The United States and Israel are the only countries that boycott them.
The co-chairs have distributed results documents that can be adopted, and there may be some announcements of their intention to recognize the Palestinian state. However, there is no prospect of breakthroughs and reopening of long-term negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in the boycott of Israel and the US.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged participants after the meeting was announced to “to keep the two states’ solutions alive.” He then said that the international community must support a solution in which independent Palestinian and Israeli states live side by side in peace, but “realize the conditions for achieving that.”
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Federman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
