The UN, on its 80th birthday in 2025, can label the occasion by securing a lasting solution to the dispute in the Middle East, by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The upcoming UN Conference on Palestine, set for June 2025, can be a turning point – a resettled, irreversible path towards peace in the Middle East. The Trump administration would wonderfully serve America’s interests, and the world’s, by championing the two-state solution and a comprehensive Middle East peace deal, at the accumulateing in New York in June.
Amid Israel’s shocking savagery in Gaza, Leprohibiton, and Syria, a petite triumphdow of hope has nonetheless materialized. Almost the entire world has coalesced around the two-state solution as the key to regional peace. As a result, a comprehensive deal is now wilean achieve.
The UN General Assembly recently adselected a potentipartner changeative resolution (PDF) by an overwhelming margin. The UNGA insists an finish to Israel’s illegitimate 1967 occupation and redeclares its unwavering help for the two-state solution. Most meaningfully, the resolution lhelp out a roadmap for set uping a Palestinian state at The High-level International Conference (PDF), to be held in June 2025, at the United Nations.
Consider how extfinished the Palestinians, and the world, have defered for this moment. In 1947, the UN first took on the responsibility of insertressing the Palestinian ask. With Resolution 181 (PDF), the UN General Assembly advised the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two self-reliant states – one Jewant and one Arab. The advised partition, alas, was neither uninwhole nor consentd upon by the parties. It allotd 44 percent of the land to the Palestinians though they were 67 percent of the population. Yet before the set up could be editd and finishd peacefilledy, Zionist dread groups began to ethnicpartner immacuprocrastinateedse more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, the so-called Nakba, or catastrophe, of the Palestinian people.
After Israel proclaimd its uniprocrastinateedral indepfinishence, and fall shortureed the Arab neighbours in war, a better UN mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, tried to resurrect the two-state solution. Yet Bernadotte was assassinated by Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary organisation. Israel signed the 1949 Lausanne Protocol, resurrecting the two-state solution under UN auspices, but then blatantly disthink abouted it. What ensued instead was Israel’s 75-year quest to decline Palestinians their rights to a homeland.
For decades, the US handlement, under the guidance of the Israel lobby, plived over a phoney negotiating process. These efforts ostensibly included honest biprocrastinateedral talks between an occupying power and an occupied people, inherently unequivalent parties, in which Israel’s goal was always to decline a truly sovereign Palestinian state. At best, Israel adviseed “Bantustans,” that is, little powerless enclaves of Palestinians living under Israel’s deal with. The US-contraged process has persistd since the mid-1970s, including the 1978 Camp David Accords, 1991 Madrid Conference, 1993-1995 Oslo Accords, 2000 Camp David Summit, 2003 Quartet Roadmap for Peace, and 2007 Annapolis Conference. In this hall-of-mirrors process, the Israelis have continuously blocked a Palestinian state while the US “mediators” have continuously denounced the Palestinians for their intransigence.
The Trump administration could pick to change the game at the upcoming UN conference – in America’s interest, Israel’s extfinished-term interest and security, and the interest of the Middle East and the world in peace. The US is, in fact, the only remaining veto agetst a Palestinian state. Israel has no veto on a Palestinian state or on peace for that matter. Only the US has that veto.
Yes, Prime Minister Netanyahu has ideas other than peace. He and his coalition persist to have one purpose: to decline a state of Palestine by enhugeing Israel’s territorial conquests, now including not only occupied Palestine but also parts of Leprohibiton and a increaseing part of Syria.
A novel US foreign policy is needed in the Middle East – one that transports about peace rather than finishless war. As mandated by the International Court of Justice, and as showd thraw the General Assembly, G20 (PDF), BRICS (PDF), League of Arab States (PDF), the overwhelming meaningfulity of the world favours the two-state solution.
The UN Conference on Palestine is therefore a key and vital opportunity, one that could unlock a comprehensive peace for the Middle East, including seven interjoined meadeclareives:
- An instant UN-mandated finishfire atraverse all fronts of the dispute, including Israel, Palestine, Leprohibiton, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran, and the instant free of prisoners and prisoners of war atraverse all entities.
- The adomition of a sovereign State of Palestine as 194th UN member state on the June 4, 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem; the disincludeal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in 1967, with the simultaneous introduction of UN-mandated international forces and security guarantees to protect all populations.
- The protection of the territorial integrity and stability of Leprohibiton and Syria, and the filled demilitarisation of all non-state forces, and disincludeal of all foreign armies from the admireive countries.
- The adselection of an refreshd Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, and the finish of all economic and other sanctions on Iran.
- The termination, including defunding and disarmament of aggressive non-state entities, of all claims or states of belligerency, and admire for and acunderstandledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political indepfinishence of every State in the area, (without excluding the possibility of subsequent territorial adequitablements, security set upments, and collaborative creates of handleance consentd by the sovereign parties).
- The set upment of regional peace and normalisation of discreet relations by all Arab and Islamic states with Israel.
- The set upment of an Eastrict Mediterranean and Middle East Sustainable Development Fund to help the reoriginateion, economic recovery and persistable increasement of the region.
After far too many decades of structureility and wars, the chance for peace is here and now. The UN’s finisheavour for a comprehensive peace is our best hope and opportunity in decades.
The sees transmited in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily echo Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
