Phantom State of Palestine takes centre stage at United Nations

The United Nations (UN) annual performance of the Phantom State of Palestine comes to New York this week.

The UN will be acting in flagrant violation of international law--namely the 1933 Montevideo Convention--which states:

“The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, (c) a government, and (d) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.”

The large number of Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Diplomats rushing to the dais to endorse their recognition of this phantom State of Palestine--that possesses none of these legal requirements--should engender derision and disbelief.

The UN continues down this path it has unsuccessfully pursued for the last 78 years--increasingly since the Security Council passed:

• Resolution 2334 on December 23, 2016 with the help of the Obama Administration’s abstention
• Resolution 2735 on June 10, 2024 drafted by the Biden Administration which set out for the first time where the Security Council thinks this phantom State of Palestine should be located and who should govern it:

“Reiterates its unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-State solution where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, consistent with international law and relevant UN resolutions, and in this regard stresses the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority”

Unifying the Gaza Strip and West Bank under the Palestinian Authority is a mirage for the following reasons:

• It denies that the Jewish People have any right to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Gaza and the West Bank under articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the UN Charter
• It ignores Israel’s Knesset declaration by a vote of 71 to 13 on July 23, 2025:

“Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley are an inseparable part of Eretz Israel—the historical, cultural and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people. Hundreds and thousands of years before the state's establishment, the forefathers and the prophets of the nation lived and acted in these regions, and the foundations of Jewish culture and faith were laid in them. Cities such as Hebron, Shechem, Shilo and Beit El are not just historical sites, they are a living expression of the continuity of Jewish existence in the land.”

The UN’s attempt to erase the existence of these rights vested in the Jewish People will not happen.

The leading actor in this upcoming farce--Palestinian Authority (PA) President and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas--will not be personally appearing--having been refused entry to the United States for the following reasons:

“Before the PLO and PA can be considered partners for peace, they must consistently repudiate terrorism--including the October 7 massacre--and end incitement to terrorism in education, as required by U.S. law and as promised by the PLO. The PA must also end its attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns, including appeals to the ICC and ICJ, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state. Both steps materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks.”

Abbas will appear on screen at the UN as the majority of the 193 member states rise to applaud him knowing that the PLO Abbas heads:

• declares former Palestine is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland
• made no claim to regional sovereignty in Gaza and the West Bank between 1964 and 1967.

Condemn this celebration of overt Jew-hatred.

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Author’s note: The cartoon was drawn in January 2019 by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators--who passed away on April 14, 2025 and whose cartoons 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