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In addition to nonviolent activities,
Palestinian
state-building efforts have been put in high gear.
Salam Fayyad, the energetic Western-trained
Palestinian
prime minister, has implemented a detailed blueprint for declaring a de facto
Palestinian
state by August 2011.
While state-building is handled by the civilian
Palestinian
Authority, political efforts are handled by the PLO, whose chairman, Abbas, is the head of Fatah as well as the
Palestinian
Authority’s president.
The PLO has succeeded in obtaining European support for a unilateral
Palestinian
declaration of statehood.
The only obstacle remaining to
Palestinian
leaders are the Americans.
It called for the “achievement of a just solution to the
Palestinian
refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.”
Israel has seen both the legitimacy of its "security wall," as well as the wall's proposed path through
Palestinian
territory, called into question - differently, but in a parallel manner - by both its own Supreme Court and by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
His initial daytime job, after running Britain, was to bring peace to the Middle East by helping establish the governing institutions of a
Palestinian
state.
What would it mean to go straight to
Palestinian
statehood?
There cannot be a
Palestinian
state without dealing with West Bank settlements.
If you don’t believe me, just visit the West Bank and see, for example, how the proposed suburban Israeli development of East Jerusalem stabs through the heart of
Palestinian
territory towards the Dead Sea.
Any
Palestinian
state should be within the 1967 borders (as adjusted through negotiation).
Moreover, a
Palestinian
state would not only comprise the West Bank and Gaza, but presumably would also have to accommodate the principal political parties in each area.
The third challenge in establishing a
Palestinian
state is to create the institutions of statehood: hospitals, ports, airports, roads, courts, police stations, tax offices, and government archives.
A
Palestinian
state will need to be built from the bottom up.
I want to see – and I’m sure Blair does, too – a peaceful
Palestinian
state next door to a secure Israel in a region united in prosperity and stability.
As one commentator put it, Europeans feel a collective guilt about the Holocaust that makes them eager to have Israel stamped as an aggressor contemptuous of
Palestinian
humanity.
It displayed a composite picture of an Israeli tank and a soldier taking aim at a defenseless
Palestinian.
Only
Palestinian
victims are listed.
Moderate Arab regimes will not dare to engage in an open and serious process of rapprochement with Israel in the absence of real progress over the
Palestinian
issue.
Consumed with legitimate anger, Palestinians and Arabs failed to come up with a serious approach to reach out to Israelis and failed to devise a workable political strategy that would address
Palestinian
daily needs and national aspirations.
Indeed, the Arab states have come nowhere close to matching the level of US and European aid to the Palestinians, much less the even higher level of Western support – political and military, as well as financial – that has been the key to Israel’s ability to withstand
Palestinian
demands for freedom.
In the face of Israel’s strength, the
Palestinian
national movement’s failure has now played into the hands of Islamists.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas), which emerged during the first Intifada in 1987, grew more powerful in the 1990’s, after the return of the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and the creation, as a result of the Oslo Accords, of the
Palestinian
Authority.
Meanwhile, the Arab peace proposal, which calls for a
Palestinian
state on the 1967 borders and a fair solution to the refugee problem in exchange for normalization of Arab states’ relations with Israel, appears doomed.
JERUSALEM – Israelis and Palestinians are preparing for a showdown at the United Nations in September, when the
Palestinian
leadership will ask for recognition of a
Palestinian
state within the borders that existed before the Six Day War in 1967 (when Israel seized control of Jordanian-occupied territory).
Given the lasting stalemate in bilateral negotiations with Israel, a
Palestinian
focus on a non-member state bid at the UN General Assembly might very well increase the likelihood of jump-starting the process.
The
Palestinian
plan already has resulted in an unprecedented diplomatic frenzy.
While Palestinians travel the world soliciting votes, Israeli officials are engaged in last-minute efforts to dissuade countries from supporting what they perceive as
Palestinian
unilateralism.
While the United States has declared its intention to veto a declaration in the Security Council, several European countries, including the United Kingdom and France, intend to back the
Palestinian
move should negotiations with Israel remain elusive.
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