UN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution
The New York Declaration (Declaration) issued at the conclusion of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, held in New York City under the joint chairmanship of Saudi Arabia and France on 27-29 July, marks the beginning of the self-destruction of the United Nations.
The Declaration states:
“28. We emphasised that commitment to the United Nations Charter and respect for international law are fundamental pillars of peace and security in the region.”
Yet the Declaration trashes these fundamental pillars by totally ignoring:
- The legal right of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza under articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandate).
- Article 80 of the United Nations Charter – which preserves the aforementioned rights vested in the Jewish people under the Mandate
Failure to recognise these vested Jewish rights has also seen the two-state solutions proposed in Security Council Resolutions 2334 (2016) and 2735 (2024) remain unimplemented.
Yet one solution recognising these vested Jewish rights is the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published in the Saudi Arabia government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022, authored by an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
The United Nations has refused to even acknowledge the existence of HKOPS or to consider its possible implementation to end this ongoing, unresolved 100-year conflict.
Gaza’s invasion of Israel on 7 October 2023 and the ensuing unresolved Israel-Gaza War could possibly have been avoided had negotiations been commenced between Israel and Jordan to divide sovereignty of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza between their two respective states, as called for by HKOPS.
The Israel-Gaza war has since been expanded with Israel being attacked by long-range ballistic missiles indiscriminately fired into Israeli population centres from Yemen and Iran.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to escalate as Hamas refuses to surrender and the United Nations keeps 1.5 million refugees penned in 7 Gaza refugee camps instead of removing them to 50 other camps located outside Gaza.
The drafters of the United Nations Charter included article 80 to ensure that the unfinished business of self-determination for the Jewish people laid out in the Mandate for Palestine did not disappear with the disbandment of the League of Nations in 1945.
The Palestinian People had not been mentioned in the Mandate for one simple reason: No such “People” existed until 1964 when the founding Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organisation created and defined this “People” – whilst simultaneously expressly disclaiming sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza.
In 1975 the UN General Assembly first displayed its contempt for the rights vested in the Jewish people when it established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) – and requested it to recommend a programme of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced. The General Assembly established the Division for Palestinian Rights as its secretariat and, throughout the years, has gradually expanded the Committee’s mandate and its vitriolic attacks condemning Israel.
Israel’s Parliament rejected any two-state solution on 23 July by a majority of 71-13.
While the UN seeks a state for the Palestinian people on land promised to the Jewish People under the Mandate and Article 80 of the UN Charter, this long-running conflict will continue, and the United Nations will become increasingly irrelevant in resolving it.
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Author’s note: The cartoon was drawn in September 2022 by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators – who passed away on 14 April 2025 and whose cartoons graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
Dom:
Thanks for your response and let me answer your concerns:
1. HKOPS is a solution that requires Jews and Arabs to both make compromises for HKOPS to be achieved. For the Jews it means acquiring sovereignty in part of – not all of – Judea and Samaria for the first time in 3000 years. For the Arabs it involves the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative being abandoned and recognition of Israel in its new borders. For both Arabs and Jews neither will have to move from his present home or business.
2. There will not be shared sovereignty of Judea and Samaria between Israel and Jordan: It will be divided. This will be achieved by redrawing the existing international border between Israel and Jordan. Israel has made it clear that it must retain security control over all of the newly-created Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine located west of the Jordan River.
3. The Sheikhs of Hebron have come up with a very interesting plan that can be used – in conjunction with HKOPS – to help resolve the issue of Hebron which is a divided city at present.
You may remember all of Judea and Samaria were part of Jordan between 1950 and 1967. They probably would still be – had Jordan heeded Israel’s warning and not entered the Six Day War in 1967. West Bank Arabs were then Jordanian citizens and they will become so again if HKOPS is implemented.
The real issue at the moment is for negotiations to be commenced between Israel and Jordan to implement HKOPS – in which the PLO and Hamas will play no part.
HKOPS can succeed – especially as it is being negotiated between two States that have enjoyed a signed peace treaty since 1994 and together already enjoy sovereignty over 95% of the territory once called “Palestine”. Dividing up the remaining 5% between them – rather than creating a third state – is a solution worth trying.
A new state between Israel and Jordan has gone nowhere for the last 58 years. Time to give HKOPS a go to end a conflict which remains unresolved after more than 100 years – and end the escalation in warfare that has broken out in the Middle East since 7 October 2023.
Do not hesitate to ask any further questions.
I am continually confused by the HKOPS.
You very accurately point out that the Jewish state in Palestine was granted sovereignty rights over all of west Palestine including Judea and Samaria, but then you turn around and say they should instead share it with Jordan, who already was given 78% of Palestine, in the land east of the Jordan river.
But it isn’t very clear what this shared sovereignty means. Is it a dual sovereignty where both states have sovereignty over the land? Or are you actually suggestion Israel give up sovereignty of some of it to Jordan, permanently? If it’s the later, then I have a big problem with this plan, as it has the same issue as all the other plans: only Israel has to give up something to solve a problem the Arabs cause by refusing to live in peace.
But either way I think the sheikhs of Hebron have a better plan at this point. Semi-autonomous emirates within Israel (same a few of the larger Arab-majority cities), and Israel has full sovereignty over all of the land they were supposed to have – west Palestine if you will.
Ben
The two-state solution has gone nowhere in 58 years.
It is time to consider the implementation of the Saudi-based 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) that the United Nations has refused to acknowledge even exists. It is a real solution that you can read here: https://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2022/06/08/The-Hashemite-Kingdom-of-Palestine
Why are you so dismissive of HKOPS – without giving any reasons to substantiate your comment?
boring continues
David Singer keeps banging on and on and on .with a useless solution