The world is still searching for a path to peaceful co-existence by Israelis and Palestinians.
regarding the status of Palestine. Once again, diplomats are debating how to solve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts.have renewed calls for a two-state solution. This would create a sovereign State of Palestine that would exist alongside Israel. The resolution that will seek to take Palestine closer to full UN membership is backed by many nations that support this proposal.
Hamas is equally adamant in its refusal to accept any solution that would require a recognition that Israel has a right to exist.what a two-state solution could look like.In November 1917, British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a 67-word note to Lord Rothschild, a leading British Jew, promising to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, albeit not at the expense of “the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”.
The British, fearing armed resistance from both sides to this arrangement, decided to hand the question over to the newly created United Nations.In November 1947, an 11-country committee recommended that two states be created, with Jerusalem – site of shared holy sites – under international administration. The Palestinian territory included one-third of the coastline – an area that included what is now Gaza – plus western territory that includes the West Bank, and some northern territory.
At this point, Israel was in charge of more or less the territory it now occupies, although it has made further incremental settlements on Palestinian-claimed land in the ensuing decades. But the most commonly advocated version of two-state solution is not based on the status quo; it is based on the UN-recognised state of play at the end of the first war in 1949 – the so-called Green Line.
Negotiations ground on, but in 2006 there was a seismic shift: Hamas won the election for the Gaza Strip. The terrorist group was founded in the 1980s with the goal of destroying Israel. In 2017, its charter was amended to accept the creation of a Palestinian state based on 1967 boundaries, although it still failed to recognise Israel.
Many hardline Israelis are adamant about not giving up these settlements. But for some, the rhetoric goes even further – the most extreme, some of whom are serving in Netanyahu’s wartime coalition, talk openly about driving out the Palestinians altogether. The key Arab countries, having started to normalise relations with Israel, are keen to restore stability, but they can’t be seen to sell out the Palestinians cheaply.“People are very angry. It has brought home to governments across the Gulf that the public is not ready to normalise with Israel, especially if they feel there’s no gain for the Palestinians in doing so,” Kristian Ulrichsen, of Rice University, said in a recent Chatham House paper.
Respondents were also asked about their support for two alternatives; one democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Palestinians, and one state in which one side or the other dominates the entire region and the other side is denied equal rights.
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