UN - Peace Without a Real Solution
The United Nations General Assembly announced it will host a June conference to discuss the two-state solution, a decades-old proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. UNGA President Philémon Yang announced the initiative with grandiose rhetoric, urging both parties to recommit to negotiations and a peaceful resolution.
The two-state solution, long the UN’s focus, consistently fails due to Palestinian leadership’s refusal to recognize Israel and ongoing corruption and incitement. Instead of addressing these issues, the UN has acted as an enabler.
The truth is stark: the two-state solution has become a diplomatic euphemism for maintaining the status quo. While Yang stressed dialogue, he conspicuously omits any serious critique of the Palestinian Authority’s kleptocratic governance or Hamas’s terrorist regime in Gaza. No state should be expected to negotiate under fire, yet Israel is routinely pressured to do so as rockets fall on its cities and its citizens are slaughtered.
Yang’s comments praising the Palestinian struggle and decrying Israeli actions betray a glaring bias. While he stresses the importance of dialogue, he omits the fact that Israel has faced unrelenting attacks. The UNGA’s tendency to vilify Israel while excusing Palestinian extremism makes any serious discussion about peace a farce.
The hypocrisy surrounding this upcoming conference is particularly apparent when considering recent history. As the UN decries Israel, it continues to fund entities and initiatives in Palestinian territories with little oversight, allowing resources to be siphoned into terror infrastructure (UNRWA anyone?).
The result? Billions in aid funneled into a society where martyrdom is celebrated, and peace is an afterthought. Meanwhile, Israel is expected to negotiate with a partner that not only denies its right to exist but actively seeks its destruction.
-www.jpost.com, 5 December 2024
Arno's Commentary
A functioning state called Palestine has never existed. In 1947, an option was presented to divide the then British Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state. The Jews rejoiced; the Arabs vehemently refused to accept a Jewish state. That should have settled the issue. Wars were fought and Israel won, each time enlarging their borders. But, under the pressure of virtually the whole world, Israel was forced to grant territory to Arabs as a concession in exchange for so-called peace that never came.
It was in 2005 when Israel unilaterally handed Gaza to Palestinian Arabs. The result? Continuous terrorist activity aimed to kill Jews. The climax occurred on 7 October 2023, when thousands of cold-blooded murderers were instructed to cross into Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.
Quite naturally, like all other states in the world, Israel defended itself by using its military to capture or annihilate enemy combatants in Gaza and in the Arab-occupied Israeli territory popularly called the West Bank.
One needs to remember the Arab League response when the State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948: “The Arab League cut off postal, telegraphic, and radio communications with Israel, and Arab states imposed a land, sea, and air blockade on the fledgling state. The Boycott Committee moved to Damascus, Syria in 1949, and called upon Arab states to set up national boycott offices.”
One must also take into consideration that the territory of the Arab League is larger than the USA and has a greater combined population. Despite the virtual impossibility of a Jewish state to be established and to function, it happened. And, we add, Israel will continue to be a significant political, intellectual, and military power in the Middle East.
The international law until that time was winner takes all. Now, all agree that does not apply to Israel.
What does the Bible say? Over 2,600 years ago, the prophet proclaimed: “Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
