A former Australian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Syria writes that Israel and Palestine must forge their own agreement, but not the long-dead “solution” proposed by the United Nations.
Seventy-five years since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the failure to establish a sovereign Palestinian state to accommodate, however imperfectly, the aspirations of each side has come home to roost., and subsequently in the Oslo Accords, has been dead for decades. But neither side has had any desire to propose, let alone work to achieve, an alternative. Both have preferred to stare into a void.Hamas rocket attacks and assaults on civilian targets by both sides are utterly despicable.
It has been all too convenient for Israelis and their Western supporters to pretend a viable two-state solution remains possible, while ignoring or dismissing the daily realities on the ground for Palestinians. The violence and indignities of occupation, and the multiple failures, respectively, of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to address the factors that have produced this latest trauma, are essentially of their own making.
Punitive strikes, with their dire consequences for Palestinian civilians, have been shown to have limited effect on the calculations of Hamas and its external supporters. They also have negative effects on Arab leaders already concerned about the domestic imagery of their closer ties with Israel. For the Palestinians, the prospects are even more dire. The economic lifelines for Gaza and the West Bank, including taxation revenue, worker permits and basic infrastructure including water and electricity, are in jeopardy.
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