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In 1st, entire Arab League condemns Oct. 7, urges Hamas to disarm, at 2-state solution confab
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[IsraelTimes] Declaration, also signed by EU and over a dozen countries, also urges terror group to give up Gaza rule, free the hostages; calls on Israel to end war, agree to Palestinian state, ‘right of return’
A tightly woven tissue of fantasies, none of which will ever come true. But at least they’re consistent in their vileness. But given that neither Israel nor America bothered to attend, it was entirely an exercise in group onanism. Arab and Moslem countries, including Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt, Jordan and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, signed a declaration Tuesday condemning for the first time Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and calling on the Paleostinian terror group to release all the hostages it is holding, disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Strip.
At least they started there. Seventeen countries, plus the 22-member Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
and the entire European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, threw their weight behind a seven-page text — obtained by The Times of Israel — agreed at a United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Paleostinians. The "New York Declaration" sets out a phased plan to end the nearly eight-decade conflict and the ongoing war in Gaza. The plan would culminate with an independent, demilitarized Paleostine living side by side peacefully with Israel, and their eventual integration into the wider Middle East region.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a two-state solution and has rejected the meeting on both nationalistic and security grounds. Israel’s close ally, the United States, is also boycotting, calling the meeting "unproductive and ill-timed."
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon late Tuesday sharply criticized the some 125 countries participating in the conference, saying "there are those in the world who fight Lions of Islam and bad boy forces and then there are those who turn a blind eye to them or resort to appeasement."
The conference, which was postponed from June and downgraded from world leaders to ministers, for the first time established eight high-level working groups to examine and make proposals on wide-ranging topics related to a two-state solution.
"In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Paleostinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Paleostinian State," said the declaration.
It followed a call Monday by the Paleostinian Authority delegation at the United Nations for both Israel and Hamas to leave Gaza, allowing the PA to administer the coastal territory.
The text also condemned the deadly Hamas-led October 7 assault on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage — of whom 50 are still held, most of them not alive — and which sparked the war in Gaza. It marks a first condemnation by virtually all Arab nations of the attack.
At least something useful came out of it. It also condemned Israeli attacks in Gaza that killed civilians, calling on Jerusalem to abandon many of its policies throughout the war and beyond, including its limiting of humanitarian aid to the Strip, its military rule and construction of settlements in the West Bank, its failure to prevent settler violence against Paleostinians, and its alleged alteration of status quos in Jerusalem.
The declaration also called for the possible deployment of foreign forces to stabilize Gaza after the end of hostilities.
Who will be the ones to bell the cat? It urged an end to Israel’s ban of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees and their descendants, UNRWA, while reiterating the Paleostinian "right of return" to places in Israel they left or were expelled from surrounding the 1948 creation of the State of Israel — a notion ruled out by successive Israeli governments which contend this would undermine its existence as a Jewish state.
The text also urged the rehabilitation of the Paleostinian economy, as well as the removal of inciting and hateful material from the Paleostinian Authority school curriculum — a demand also directed at Israel.
La Belle France, which co-chaired the conference with Saudi Arabia, called the declaration "both historic and unprecedented," calling on UN member countries to support the declaration, which outlines "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" toward implementing the two-state solution — which is strongly rejected by the current Israeli government.
"For the first time, Arab countries and those in the Middle East condemn Hamas, condemn October 7, call for the disarmament of Hamas, call for its exclusion from Paleostinian governance, and clearly express their intention to normalize relations with Israel in the future," said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
while the declaration included general pledges for "full regional integration" and "tangible steps in promoting mutual recognition, peaceful coexistence, and cooperation among all States in the region," it did not include an explicit intent by the signatories to establish full diplomatic ties with the Jewish state.
The declaration, spearheaded by La Belle France and Saudi Arabia, was signed by the vaporous Arab League, the EU, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Italia, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Norway and Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
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"We call on you to support this document before the end of the 79th session of the General Assembly by contacting the missions of Saudi Arabia and La Belle France in New York," Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud told the conference on Tuesday. The 80th UN General Assembly is due to start in September.
The first step outlined in the declaration is to end the 22-month war between Israel and Hamas.
"Following the ceasefire, a transitional administrative committee must be immediately established to operate in Gaza under the umbrella of the Paleostinian Authority," it reads.
The declaration supports the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission, mandated by the UN Security Council, and welcomes "the readiness expressed by some member states to contribute troops."
It calls on Israel’s leadership to "issue a clear public commitment to the Two-State Solution, including a sovereign, and viable Paleostinian State, to immediately end violence and incitement against Paleostinians, [and] to halt all settlement, land grabs and annexation activities in the Occupied Paleostinian Territories, including East Jerusalem."
The declaration commits to adopting restrictive measures against violent mostly peaceful bad boy settlers and those who support illegal settlements, and adopting targeted measures "against entities and individuals acting against the principle of the peaceful settlement of the question of Paleostine, through violence or acts of terrorism, and in breach of international law."
It also describes regional integration and independent Paleostinian statehood as "intertwined objectives."
"Only by ending the war in Gaza, releasing all hostages, ending occupation, rejecting violence and terror, realizing an independent, sovereign, and democratic Paleostinian State, ending the occupation of all Arab territories and providing solid security guarantees for Israel and Paleostine, can normal relations and coexistence among the region’s peoples and States be achieved," it reads.
The declaration urges countries to recognize the state of Paleostine, calling this "an essential and indispensable component of the achievement of the two-state solution." Without naming Israel but clearly referring to it, the document says "illegal unilateral actions are posing an existential threat to the realization of the independent state of Paleostine."
French President Emmanuel Macron announced ahead of the meeting that his country will recognize the state of Paleostine at the General Assembly’s meeting of world leaders in late September.
The document was issued on the second day of the conference in New York, at which Britannia announced it would recognize a Paleostinian state in September unless Israel halts fighting in Gaza and commits to a grinding of the peace processor that ends with a two-state solution. Planned for two days, the meeting was extended into Wednesday because representatives of about 50 countries have not spoken.
For decades, most UN members have supported a two-state solution with Israel and a future Paleostinian state existing side-by-side. But after almost 22 months of war in Gaza, the ongoing expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and Israeli officials declaring designs to annex parts of Gaza and the West Bank, many countries fear that a Paleostinian state could become geographically impossible.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said at the meeting Monday: "The two-state solution is farther than ever before."
A separate one-page statement titled the "New York Call" was circulated by La Belle France, but the language was considered too strong, especially for Arab nations. It was only approved by 15 Western nations, including six that have recognized a Paleostinian state and nine others: Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Portugal and San Marino.
The statement, issued late Tuesday, says the 15 countries have recognized, "expressed or express the willingness or the positive consideration... to recognize the state of Paleostine, as an essential step towards the two-state solution, and invite all countries that have not done so to join this call."
Israel, under the current government led by Netanyahu, has long rejected the establishment of a Paleostinian state, and has refused to entertain the possibility of the PA playing any role in the future governance of Gaza. But it has offered few details of what it envisions as an alternative to the PA in postwar Gaza, beyond advocating for what it insists would be the voluntary mass migration of its population.
Israel’s offensive against Hamas has killed over 60,000 Paleostinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and terror operatives.
On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told international journalists that Israel would not give in to the "distorted campaign of international pressure" to end the war in Gaza and force a two-state solution on Israel.
"Establishing a Paleostinian state today is establishing a Hamas state. A jihadist state," said Sa’ar. "It ain’t gonna happen."
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