By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--May 7, 2024
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Former President Donald Trump has rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s mantra to create a Palestinian Arab state between Jordan and Israel during Trump’s wide-ranging interview in Time on April 30, 2024.
Guterres – in addressing the Security Council on January 23, 2024 – made his position clear:
Guterres’s arrogance in declaring what Israel must do is clearly out there for all to see.
For the last 23 months – Guterres has deliberately failed to advise the Security Council of the existence of the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) authored by Ali Shihabi an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman--published in Al-Arabiya News on June 8, 2022 and subsequently amended on June 19, 2022.
HKOPS trashes Guterres’s two-state solution--proposing instead the creation of a new territorial entity comprising Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank to be ruled by the Hashemites--with its capitol in Amman--not Jerusalem.
HKOPS makes the following points that leaves Guterres out on a limb in a fantasy dream world of his own:
Trump has added his voice to abandoning Guterres’s two-state solution--telling Time:
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Guterres is swimming against the tide trying to get Israel to commit national suicide by implementing the failed 2016 two-state solution embodied in UNSCR 2334--especially after the murders, rapes and hostages taken during Gaza’s invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023.
Palestinian Arabs will need to make concessions in implementing HKOPS--as will Israel--if there is to be an end to a conflict which has raged unresolved for more than 100 years.
Get off your hobby horse Secretary-General Guterres and stop continuing to deliberately bury HKOPS from Security Council scrutiny.
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Author’s note: The cartoon--commissioned exclusively for this article--is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”--one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators--whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com