Memo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: The door on a two-state solution was closed 45 years ago
And thus it was, at least so far as the Arab and wider Muslim world (and me, too) are concerned, that the UN said goodbye to its integrity; and the door to a two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict was closed, slammed shut. Forty five years ago.
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Richard Steven Hack:
September 27th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
As many no doubt know, the UN had a subcommittee studying the issue of whether it had the legal authority to partition Palestine. The committee concluded and reported to the UNSC that the UNSC did NOT have that authority under international law, but only the authority to implement the Palestinian Mandate of the League of Nations.
However, the UNSC overruled that decision due to its fears over the consequences of not partitioning Palestine, given the hostility in the region and that the British were washing their hands of it.
Therefore the UN subverted ITSELF in 1947 by allowing an illegal state – Israel – to come into existence by partitioning Palestine and allowing the Zionists to create Israel in 1948.
The only solution to the Palestinian issue is for the UNSC and/or the General Assembly to REVERSE that decision, declare Israel an illegal, rogue state and re-assert international control of Palestine until a new Palestinian Constitution and Palestinian government can be created covering the whole of Palestinians and Israelis.
Absent that action, the only resolution we shall see is either ethnic cleansing or genocide of the Palestinians by the Israelis at some point – or worse.
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greg wilkinson:
September 28th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Who drafted 242, and deleted ‘the’ before ‘territories’? Was our Hugh Foot responsible? Is there a discrepancy between English and French versions, and how does it look in Arabic?
William Smart:
September 28th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
@ Richard Steven Hack said… “As many no doubt know, the UN had a subcommittee studying the issue of whether it had the legal authority to partition Palestine. The committee concluded and reported to the UNSC that the UNSC did NOT have that authority under international law, but only the authority to implement the Palestinian Mandate of the League of Nations.”
Really? Where’s that?
However, the UNSC overruled that decision due to its fears over the consequences of not partitioning Palestine, given the hostility in the region and that the British were washing their hands of it.
Really? The UNSC refused to rubber-stamp the GA resolution 181 and passed other resolutions stopping the Zionists from changing the political arrangements. And appointed Count Bernadotte as the legal successor to the Mandate.
I’m not sure the UNSC is at fault, except in so far as it has failed to put its wishes into action.
Rehmat:
September 28th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Historically, the door to the illegal two-state concept proposed by the Balfour Declaration (1917) was closed in May 1948 when David Ben Gurion declared unilateral creation of Israel on the 55% of the historic Palestine.
There is only one option to resolve the Zionist problem in the Middle East. That’s a single Palestinian state with equal rights for both the Natives and the alien Jews – under a democratic secularist governance.
http://rehmat1.com/2010/06/18/palestine-the-third-option/
Scott Doidge:
September 28th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
There is now only one solution left to resolving this intractable problem, and one which would be taken up by any oppressed people: a military solution. The author is correct; everything Zionism has touched has become corrupted. Today the UN is meaningless.
k_w:
September 28th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
What is hardly known is that Israel recognized resolutions 181 and 194 as valid in the process of her admission to the United Nations. The Zionists even used the 194 to press the Soviet Union to allow their Jews’ emigration to Israel. That’s what I call chutzpah.
Bob Battersby:
September 29th, 2012 at 9:16 am
The UN was clearly party to the problem in the first place. Perhaps became an instrument for promoting conflict rather than for peace: The UN as an instrument of Colonial Enterprise! Yes, I feel the British (under pressure from American Zionists in particular) did indeed wash their hands of Palestine. The Zionist hawks bumped off Bernadotte because he saw the solution as being under International not Zionist control. Given Israeli hawks desire to go a bombing when it suits them (or their masters) I don’t think anyone believes in a so called two-state solution. I feel the only way forward is a democratic secular Palestine with equal rights for all.
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Andrej:
July 6th, 2015 at 11:41 pm
I would suggest a new ozgrniaation of Free Republics with Limited Powers (FRLP). It would have a bicameral legislature with the number of representitives in one house proportional to GDP, the other proportional to Population. The member state legislatures would elect representatives to the population body, and proxies would be gathered to vote for the GDP body. The FRLP would conduct audits of member governments, guarantee individual rights. Members governments would pay a fee to join, and a second fee to remain a member each year. Member states would gain trade and defense advantages.