By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--January 9, 2024
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The United Nations (UN) failure to mention the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) once in the 16 months after its publication on June 8, 2022 could have contributed to the Israel-Gaza War happening.
The UN failed to recognize the looming confrontation identified in this Report (my underlining):
Israel’s political and military leadership will have to answer these bombshell allegations in the inevitable public enquiry that follows the end of the Israel-Gaza War.
The UN also needs to answer why it ignored the changing strategic situation between Israel and Saudi Arabia as they moved to normalize their relations--by deliberately burying debate on HKOPS which almost certainly was being raised in secret Israeli-Saudi discussions in February 2023.
HKOPS author--Ali Shihabi--an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman--had earlier approved every word of my article published on August 14, 2022--stating HKOPS:
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I sent Stéphane Dujarric--Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres--a copy of this article on August 17, 2022 asking for the Secretary-General’s comment.
Dujarric failed to even acknowledge receipt of this letter--following the pattern he had adopted to letters I sent him on June 30th, July 19, and August 4, 2022 enclosing earlier articles written by me about HKOPS and inviting the Secretary-General’s response to this game-changing proposal.
Dujarric similarly ignored my letters sent to him on October 16th, November 22nd, December 14, 2022 and January 3rd, January 18th, January 29th, and June 13, 2023 including later published articles criticizing the Secretary-General’s arrogant behaviour.
Debating HKOPS in the Security Council to replace its failed 2016 two-state solution--instead of consigning my letters to the UN’s shredders--could well have helped prevent the Israel-Gaza War.
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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