UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterreshe repeated on Tuesday that this It is “unacceptable” that Israel refuses to accept a two-state solution, one Israeli and one Palestinian, and that this position “must be decisively rejected.”

Guterres spoke to the Security Council: at its quarterly meeting on the Palestinian issue and recalled that “even Israel’s friends and allies sitting around this table” – meaning mainly the United States – have made clear calls to support two states.

“This is a rejection of Israel – and a denial of the right to a state for the Palestinian people, will only prolong the conflict indefinitely which has become a serious threat to global peace and security,” Guterres said.

This is the Palestinian right to a state. “must be recognized by everyone” – Guterres emphasized.

Guterres’ intervention was followed by that of the Palestinian Foreign Minister. Riad Al Malki, who said that Israel could not have a veto over the admission of a Palestinian state as a full member of the UN (it now only has observer status).

Al-Maliki expressed regret that Israel does not see the Palestinian people “as an empirical and political reality with which one can coexist, but as a demographic threat that must be eliminated through death, displacement or enslavement,” but warned Israel against the “illusion” that it could achieve peace while “occupation and colonialism” continued.

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Although the two-state idea is currently at the center of the debate, Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan took the floor and made no mention of the issue. preferring to attack Hamas and Iran instead for its allegedly destabilizing role in the region.

Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly rejected the two-state solution. But Erdan was reluctant to enter that debate today, perhaps recognizing that the wider international community, including his staunchest ally, the United States, is increasingly pushing for this option as a way out of the conflict.

In this sense, French Foreign Minister Stephane Séjournet, who also addressed the Security Council today, He also advocated the same two-state solution. and warned against Israeli attempts to create a future Palestinian state.

“It is not for Israel to decide the fate of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. no place for them to live on their land, it’s up to the Palestinian Authority,” said Sejourn, who said he spoke as a “friend” of both Israel and Palestine.

(EFE)