After recent 11-days deadly encounter between Israel and
Hamas many international organizations, humanitarian institutions and observers
are expressing concerns about the settlement based on two-state solution:
Palestine and Israel.
There is growing consensus that the proposed solution
does not offer a viable settlement to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Israel is facing global condemnation because it did not take
into account the repercussions of storming Al-Aqsa, arresting worshipers,
putting them into prison, and humiliating them in front of the eyes and ears of
the world. Most radios and televisions across the world covered the event. Israelis
were also under the impression that the Palestinian cause has lost color with
the passage of time and some Arab countries normalizing their ties with Israel.
In the recent crisis in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood,
where the Palestinians have been facing discrimination since 1972, an Israeli
plot to displace them and build settlements on the ruins of their homes under
the claim that the land on which their homes were built by the Jordanian
government was rented. These are intended to legalize their existence and
occupation.
The international community, including the General Assembly
of the United Nations and the Security Council, as well as the United States of
America, European countries, and official and unofficial bodies are talking a
lot about the two-state solution to resolve the crisis between Israel and
Palestine.
Concerted efforts have been made in putting an end to such a
situation, including nearly three decades of diplomacy; the Oslo Accords, the
Camp David summit, the Clinton Parameters, the Taba summit, the Arab Peace
Initiative, the road map for the Middle East, and Abbas and Olmert's talks in
the context of the Annapolis process, and John Kerry's efforts to achieve peace
and other relentless attempts.
The Zionist regime considers the formation of any future
Palestinian government is synonymous with facing a huge human force that is not
stopped by the F-35 fighters or cruise missiles and is not prevented by tanks.
Some Israelis who believe in building a state based on their
military power designate the Palestinians as terrorists groups willing to cut
settlers into pieces while others, who are more realistic, believe that the
Palestinians are a people who do not compromise their cause and do not accept
trading their homeland despite the fact that the world has abandoned them. They
were fighting with stones, but with the establishment of the state, they would
target Israel with missiles, fighters, and all that they would possess.
Accepting a Palestinian state means living alongside the
Palestinians in their vicinity, and not to continue bombing, killing,
displacing, or desecrating the sanctities of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of the
holy sites for Muslims and Christians until hearing the last Palestinian breath
out.
Many analysts don’t expect that Israel will accept the idea
of a two-state solution, which means the establishment of a fully sovereign
Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza alongside itself. It should be
noted that the West Bank, including Jerusalem, for the Jews, is the core and
essence of the biblical land.
Another obstacle facing the two-state solution is settlement
operations; the presence of settlers, and the absolute control of Israel over
more than half of the West Bank, according to the Oslo agreement, makes it
difficult for the establishment of a Palestinian state with real sovereignty,
due to lack of independence, security and economic components as it is surrounded
by Israel from four sides. In addition Israel is not likely to abandon
Jerusalem due to political, religious, economic and tourism considerations.
One of the other main obstacles to achieve the two-state
solution is the idea of returning of Palestinian refugees to their homeland
from which they were forcibly evicted.
The right of return is the essence of the Palestinian cause.
Their leadership constantly reiterates the right of return, they are fully
aware that this will not be achieved in light of the circumstances that
Palestine is experiencing at regional and international levels.
What is the benefit of the two-state solution if half
of the Palestinian people remain homeless and scattered? It seems impossible
that Israel to accept this level of embarrassment; and even though it is now
not in a position to be forced to make all these concessions, knowing that this
step can put existence at stake.
