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
The Ministerial Committee appointed at the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit on November 11, 2023 missed a golden opportunity to advance an end to the Jewish-Arab conflict when they met with United Nations Secretary-General--Mr. António Guterres--on 29 November 29, 2023.
“articulate an American vision for how the Gaza war must end. That would require a Biden administration plan to create two states for two indigenous peoples living in the areas of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.”
New York Times Foreign Affairs Opinion Columnist –Thomas Friedman - has offered President Biden some appalling advice in his latest op-ed – suggesting Biden:
“articulate an American vision for how the Gaza war must end. That would require a Biden administration plan to create two states for two indigenous peoples living in the areas of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.”
1012 Australian barristers, lawyers and legal academics have so far signed a nine-page letter--including 89 footnotes (Australian Letter)--requesting Australia use its influence to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank--which I won’t be signing.
The Australian Letter dated November 3, 2023 acknowledges it is based on a similar letter signed by English lawyers dated October 23, 2023 (English Letter).
An organised international Jew-haters network has been unleashed following the failure of the United Nations (UN) to cooperate with Israel by evacuating Gaza’s children, women, the sick and the elderly to safe havens outside Gaza to enable Israel to quickly hunt down and kill those monsters in Gaza responsible for the horrific massacre in Israel of 1400 civilians and abducting over 200 as hostages on October 7.
The Executive Committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting held on October 18, 2023 “to discuss the ongoing Israeli military aggression against the Palestinian people” marks a shameful and disturbing new low point in Islamic-Christian-Jewish relations.
The horrific slaughter of more than 1300 civilians in Israel with more than 150 being taken as hostages to Gaza--has seen expressions of outrage, sympathy and support for Israel from many nations. However many of the world’s 193 nations have been silent to their eternal shame.
I am writing this article in total despair as the Simchat Torah War--started when a large number of bloodthirsty armed Gazan-Arab Jew-haters crossed from Gaza unchallenged into Israel on a Jewish Sabbath and special joyous Festival Day--slaughtering hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians in an orgy of murder and destruction.
The fall from grace of the failed two-state solution proposed by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and its replacement with the 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution has left United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) policies in total disarray.
On September 18, 2023--High Representative/Vice-President of the EU--Josep Borrell--faced the media--after what was termed a ‘Peace Day Effort’ Ministerial-level meeting held on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of the UN General Assembly--to report:
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) and Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu have given their clearest indication to date that current talks between them to normalise relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel could include their reaching agreement on the terms to successfully implement the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS).
Jordan, the PLO and Hamas could accept this agreed Israel-Saudi position or choose to maintain the current status quo until amendments acceptable to them are reached.
The introduction by Israel of a Welcome to Country ceremony--similar to that which has existed in Australia since 1973--could be just the circuit-breaker needed to reunite a bitterly divided Israeli society - as all 15 judges of Israel’s Supreme Court ponder the issue of judicial reform on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
Such a ceremony would serve to bring the Jewish people together to publicly honor, recognise and acknowledge their forefathers as the traditional owners of the land on which the State of Israel has been established and to which Israel is entitled to lay claim in Judea and Samaria under articles 6 and 25 of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter.
The continuing failure of The New York Times (NYT) to inform its readers of the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) in the fifteen months since its first publication on June 8, 2022 breaches the solemn pledge made to NYT readers in 1996.
In announcing that NYT’s 100 years-old original masthead slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" would now appear on the home page of New York Times on the Web--publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said:
The
rapid deterioration in the security situation in Judea and Samaria
(West Bank) and Gaza requires the UN Security Council to take urgent
steps to abandon its failed two-state solution expressed in Resolution 2334 passed on December 23, 2016 and adopt the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on June 8, 2022 as subsequently amended.
The rejection of theHashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (HKOPS) by Jordan’s King Abdullah and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - coming only 15 months after HKOPS was first published - could actually make it easier for Saudi Arabia and Israel to agree upon the terms of its implementation as well as facilitate negotiating the terms for normalizing the Saudi-Israel relationship.
Jordan’s King Abdullah and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas have broken their 15 months long silence by finally rejecting the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution- first published in Saudi Arabia on 8 June 2022 – that shredded the failed two-state solution pursued by Saudi Arabia and the Arab League since 2002 (Arab Peace Initiative).
Hopes of a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel are on hold following a report in the Wall Street Journal that – according to US officials – the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the broad contours of a deal for Saudi
Arabia to recognize Israel in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, U.S. security guarantees and civilian nuclear help.
The possibility of Israel and Saudi Arabia doing a peace deal rests on the shoulders of one man--Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS).
MBS has to clarify whether any peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is dependent solely on a Palestinian State being created between Israel and Jordan--by answering this one question:
The continuing silence of any Israeli non-government organizations (NGOs) to endorse the implementation of the 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) is of grave concern as the security situation in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) worsens.
One wonders what led Israel’s leading left-wing newspaper Haaretz to publish a bizarre article by Rogel Alpher headlined “I oppose peace with Saudi Arabia” because Alpher fears Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s political position will be strengthened if Netanyahu succeeds.