Recognizing the Palestinian state: Consolidating or undermining security and peace?

Dr. Fawzi Ali Al-Samhouri

First, we must consider two opposing and contradictory positions regarding the recognition of the Palestinian state, between those who support it, those who oppose it, and those who reject it, despite the recognition of 149 countries, or 77% of the total members of the United Nations General Assembly, in order to understand the meanings of each position.
First: The position in support of recognizing the Palestinian state:
Recognition of the Palestinian state by the overwhelming majority of countries in the world in general and by a European country that is a permanent member of the Security Council and occupies an important position among the countries of the European Union, such as France:
▪ The deprivation of the Palestinian people from enjoying their fundamental and inalienable right to freedom, independence, self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on the soil of their homeland must end.
▪ Recognizing that it is time for the international community to fulfill its duties in stopping the violation of the United Nations Charter, which guarantees all peoples the right to self-determination, and emphasizing that the Palestinian people are an integral part of the peoples of the world, and thus enabling them to exercise their natural right to enjoy their basic rights, like the rest of the peoples of the world, without discrimination.
▪ A fundamental step towards working to embody the establishment of an independent and internationally recognized Palestinian state as a practical reality, in implementation of the United Nations Charter and international resolutions issued by the Security Council and the General Assembly over the past decades, most notably Security Council Resolution 2334 and General Assembly Resolution No. 10/24.
▪ Recognizing Palestinian sovereignty over all of its occupied land by ending the Israeli and American claims that these are disputed lands and not occupied.
▪ The French decision comes in respect of the International Court of Justice’s decision calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and the changes it resulted in, and its conclusion regarding the illegality and illegitimacy of the Israeli colonial occupation of the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and its call to end the Israeli occupation.
Second, the position opposing recognition of the Palestinian state:
As for the position opposing recognition of the Palestinian state and thus continuing to deprive the Palestinian people of their natural right to establish their state, such as the American position and its protégé, the Israeli colonial entity, means:
First: The coup of a superpower like the United States against the principles, goals and Charter of the United Nations to establish international peace and security and the values of justice and equality among the countries and peoples of the world.
Second: Embodying the principle of the right of might, i.e. revealing the policy of the law of the jungle by excluding the principle of the might of right?
Third: Supporting the continuation of the Israeli colonial occupation of the territories of the occupied Palestinian state, internationally recognized under General Assembly Resolutions No. 181 and 19/67/2012, in an effort to pursue an aggressive, expansionist, colonial policy.
Fourth: Disregard the decisions of the International Court of Justice and all international resolutions related to the Palestinian issue, which call for an end to the Israeli occupation of the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories.
Fifth: Evading its obligations as a permanent member of the Security Council and sponsor of the Oslo Accords to work to guarantee and ensure the implementation of bilateral agreements and international resolutions by obligating Israel to implement them under penalty of sanctions.
Sixth: Undermining the principles of international justice, represented by the refusal to implement and respect the decisions issued by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which means giving the rogue Israeli entity free rein to continue committing its crimes and enabling it to escape accountability and punishment by undermining the existing global order and rejecting the establishment of a new multipolar global order.
Seventh: Refusal to recognize the Palestinian state, as this would undermine the expansionist Israeli-American policy and its negative repercussions on American influence and hegemony.
Eighth: Fueling and maintaining regional and international conflict to serve American interests and declining influence on the global stage.
Does recognizing the Palestinian state strengthen or undermine security and peace?
It has been proven conclusively that American policy and its axis:
▪ By not recognizing, but rather denying, the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom, independence, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state, in implementation of the General Assembly resolutions on the liquidation of colonialism and the prohibition of the occupation of the territory of another state.
▪ Blind support for the ongoing aggressive Israeli policy and the perpetuation of its occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories occupied since the June 1967 aggression.
▪ Enabling it to evade the implementation of international resolutions and accountability from punishment for its internationally punishable crimes.
▪ Justifying its crimes since its creation in 1948 under the pretext of security and self-defense.
All of this did not lead to achieving and consolidating international peace and security, but rather led and will lead to undermining the regional and international peace that the world has witnessed in the past, is currently witnessing, and will witness in the future.
So the American pretext for rejecting French President Macron's decision to recognize the Palestinian state next September, which is that it obstructs peace, in addition to the arbitrary American veto refusing to recognize the State of Palestine as a fully functioning state with full rights and duties in the General Assembly, is refuted by reality and confirms the aggressive American approach of subjecting the Arab region to its complete hegemony for decades to come, whose goals have become clearly and unambiguously evident during the era of the current American administration headed by Trump, and which is being implemented by the war criminal Netanyahu, who claims that he is working to change the Middle East and even the world.
Based on the above, and after the failure of the US policy through its previous and current policy to achieve peace and end the conflict, it has no choice but to restore respect for the principles and objectives of the United Nations and its Charter by obligating Israel to end its occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories, which are internationally recognized, with Jerusalem as its capital, and enabling the Palestinian people to achieve freedom and independence and establish their independent state. This requires President Trump to adopt a new policy that, if adopted, will inevitably lead to the consolidation and embodiment of regional security and peace by working to immediately lift the veto by recognizing the Palestinian state as a permanent member state, and by immediately stopping the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, lifting the comprehensive siege on the Gaza Strip, and beginning to implement General Assembly Resolution No. 10/24 issued last September and Security Council Resolution No. 2334.
Then all obstacles and impediments to the realization of regional and international peace and security will be removed. Otherwise, no matter how much the US administration exerts its power and might, it will continue to live in international political isolation and will remain accused of complicity in committing crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, "forced displacement," war, and against humanity perpetrated by the Israeli terrorist entity. Consequently, the continued undermining of international peace and security will lead to the decline of its leadership, even if after a while.
Recognizing the Palestinian state under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and implementing relevant international resolutions is the only way to consolidate regional and international security and peace and uphold the values of truth, justice, and human rights.

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