Right to existence vital
MANY member states of the UN suggested that negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis be restarted after the Palestinians submitted a statehood request to the General Assembly. This was like coming back to square one. The Palestine-Israel saga has been going on for over six decades in front of the eyes of the international community without any real solution or remedy.
In order to find a solution, the parties involved must go back to the 1967 borders, swap lands to gain the lost territories and then start fixing security, refugees and settlement matters as the next step. All the previous delays in sorting out this issue were due to loss of momentum, doubts about achieving real peace, absence of support from the international powers and the correlation of the situation with interests beyond time and place.
In fact, there can be security and everlasting peace in the region only when the Palestinians, the Israelis and the world community accept the right to existence of both Palestine and Israel and both these countries recognize each other in a genuine way.
Email: Labeed.abdal@gmail.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By: Labeed Abdal
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/174428/reftab/73/t/Statehood-request-for-Palestinians-in-the-UN/Default.aspx
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment