Guterres: Relocate Gazans & back Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued this warning to the Security Council on April 18, 2024:

“The Middle East is on a precipice

Recent days have seen a perilous escalation--in words and deeds

Guterres finally acknowledged the reason for this dire situation:

“The horrific terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October, including mass killings, the use of sexual violence, torture, and the taking of hostages, were an intolerable denial of the most basic values of humanity, and a breach of the most fundamental rules of international law”

Guterres’s long-awaited condemnation of the October 7, 2023 atrocities requires him to adopt the following policies to replace failed policies pursued by him since October 7, 2023:

• Abandoning calls for ceasefires that would inevitably allow those Gazan monsters responsible to regroup and repeat their barbaric acts
• Demanding the unconditional surrender of Gaza’s Hamas Government
• Supporting Israel as it seeks to rescue the hostages and hunts down those responsible for abducting them
• Relocating Gaza’s children, women, the sick and the elderly - penned inside Gaza and being used as human shields by those responsible for the October 7, 2023 atrocities - to the safety of 50 UNWRA camps located outside Gaza.
• Rejecting the continuing refusal of 87 Islamic states worldwide to take in any of Gaza’s trapped civilians - by shaming those countries for failing to help rescue their fellow Muslims

Guterres remains wedded to pursuing the failed two-state solution contained in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334--that has gone nowhere since being adopted on December 23,2016:

“The ultimate goal remains a two-state solution--Israel and Palestine living side-by-side in peace and security, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states, on the basis of UN resolutions, international law and previous agreements.

This means an end to the occupation and the establishment of a fully independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian State, with Gaza as an integral part.

The international community has a responsibility and a moral obligation to help make this happen.”

A pathetic attempt by the General Assembly on May 10, 2024 to achieve this result through the backdoor -by getting a non-legally-compliant “State of Palestine” admitted to full membership of the UN - has been consigned to the diplomatic graveyard.

Guterres refuses to consider an alternative revolutionary solution--The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS)--first published in the Saudi-Government-controlled Al Arabiya News on June 8, 2022.

Authored by Ali Shihabi - an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman--HKOPS trashes Resolution 2334 --calling instead for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one new territorial entity to be called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine - to be governed by Jordan’s current Hashemite rulers - with its capitol being located in Amman.

Guterres’s quarterly reports to the Security Council have never once mentioned HKOPS. His failure to do so after October 7, 2023 is especially reprehensible.

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu declared on May 15, 2024:

“No reward will be given for the terrible massacre of Oct. 7, which 80% of the Palestinians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, support. We will not allow them to establish a terrorist state from which they can attack us even more”

Attempting to implement HKOPS has now become even more critical to avoid the Middle East going over that precipice that so rightly concerns Guterres.

Would the United Nations Correspondents Association please confront Guterres and ask him why he refuses to do so?

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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.

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