Israel, a two-state solution, some recent perceptions

 Israel, a two-state solution, some recent perceptions

Writings and official Israeli assertions offer an idea of what ‘a Jewish national home’ and a long-standing dispute constitute

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 idea of a Jewish national home 

Origin and questions

annexation of West Bank settlements and history 

 

1 in 2018, Israel’s ruling Likud Party unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for the annexation of West Bank settlements.

2  The Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan declared, “We are telling the world that it doesn’t matter what the nations of the world say. 

3 In 1974, the Palestine Liberation Organization was officially recognised by the Arab League and the United Nations General Assembly as being the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people”, and was invited to participate in all UN activities under observer status.

4  The Arab states, developed a common position in the Arab League Declaration/Initiative of March 2002. 

This was followed a few months later by the Palestinian Non-Paper (June 12, 2002) outlining a vision for Permanent Status Negotiations based on it

 and stating that ‘the border between the state of Palestine and the state of Israel will be the June 4, 1967 Armistice Line’.

Balance of forces

 Madrid Conference of 1991 

regional and global, including the arrival in Israel of nearly a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and the long and profound effect on the Israeli public of the Intifada / war , 

eventually led to the Madrid Conference of 1991. The letter of invitation to invitees did not include the phrase “territories for peace” but was mentioned in the letters of assurance addressed to the Arab invitees.

 American support for Israel 

In a study published recently by a the Tel Aviv University think-tank, two experts assessed that the American support for Israel in the present war ‘has been unprecedented’ in terms of 

• diplomatic support, 
• ongoing military assistance and 
• strategic support 
• but also in growing criticism of Israel’s conduct 
• and increasing efforts to shape the post-war situation. .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reasoning

 is guarantee of a continued Israeli control over the majority of West Bank land, water, internal and external movement and transportation, and overriding security. 

This, in effect, is a recipe for preventing the creation of a normal Palestinian state. 

The players

the experience of October 7, can thus be summed up:

Palestinians: recognition of their existence as a state along with rights as a state under international law and in terms of the Palestinian Non-Paper of June 12, 2002;

Israel: retention of the acquired territory. ‘The Palestinians would be given all the powers to govern themselves but none of the powers that could threaten Israel. 

Put simply, the solution is self-government for the Palestinians with vital security powers retained by Israel.’

The United States: A two-state solution with a de-militarised Gaza, a Saudi normalisation with Israel, a role for the moderate Arab countries in rebuilding Gaza, and in keeping Iran isolated.

Arab states: A revitalised Palestinian state, devoid of radical elements after the experience of the Arab Spring, and a benefiting from the experience of Egypt and Jordan and of the governments party to the Abraham Accords. Some of may not be averse to American suggestions of an Arab Mandate.

One needs to be an optimist, even a ‘panglossian’, to consider these to be realisable.