British Prime Minister Keer Stmper and French President Emanuel Macron Pass Announced That their nations are considering recognizing one -sided Palestine. At first glance, it may seem a powerful symbolic step: a gesture to remind the Israeli’s bent government that the disintegration of millions of people is morally indefinitely and strategically mindless.
But, at this time, this step will be devastating.
Israel will not return from any land until Hamas is not a threat – and will now strengthen the group to recognize Palestine, such as in most Arab states Finally calling it to disproportionateThere can be no more self-pronounced action than ending the appearance of this jihadi mafia organization, which has brought disaster on both Palestinians and Israel, and which is currently much less than war.
With Ghazan being extremely afflicted, there is no belief that there is no change? Well, consider the fact that About 150 countries have recognized PalestineBut this has proved to be meaningless in front of a reality that has no agreeable area, no systematic boundaries and no one is able to use the Integrated Palestinian Authority.
Hamas, one of the two relevant Palestinian groups, dismisses peace lump sum and has used terror against Israeli to continuously derail diplomacy. Other, Fatah, which controls the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, is corrupt and disable, but comparatively saint. Nevertheless, Fatah has also failed to embrace the proposals of peace, which may have created a Palestinian state on about 98 percent of the area, which they want, the last one Coming in 2008.
Israel was completely taken out of Gaza in 2005, and Hamas forcibly expelled the Palestinian Authority after two years. Hamas has used Gaza as a launching pad for attacks. The attack and genocide of October 7, 2023 was just the most terrible episode. Sadly, the attack managed to look like an unqualified Israeli-Saudi generalization deal-and also assured Israelis that they could not risk giving any more land to Palestinians.
The major powers identifying a Palestinian kingdom will now indicate the Palestinians that the most barbaric version of terrorism pays the highest dividend and actually brought them to the line. Support for Hamas will increase, despite the group awakening a war, which was many flattened by Gaza, hundreds of thousands of displaced and tens of thousands were killed.
To imagine Israel again, pulling out of the West Bank – with Hamas probably prime to take that area too – is imagination. The region, where the Palestinian Authority controls the pockets of “autonomy”, borders the very heart of Israel.
Tel Aviv is located just 25 miles from Aviv Kalakalya, and Jerusalem is surrounded by three sides. The October 7 style invasion from West Bank will be increasingly more disastrous. Israel will not agree to a Palestinian state and unless the fear of this existence is addressed and resolved.
This means one thing should go from top to: Hamas. Not weak, not partially sidelined, but gone, at least as an armed organization, and completely representative. Until this happens, any serious conversation that involves the West Bank is politically impossible in Israel.
In addition, the state of Palestinian of any future should be demarcated. This means that no armed militia, no rocket factory, no independent range of commands. A future government – possibly a improved Palestinian Authority – should have a monopoly on the use of force, as any legitimate state should be. Hamas will never agree to this.
Bypassing Hamas, it will also be in the interests of Palestinians. Hamas is a democratic militia who has converted Gaza into a pathetic jail and has changed Israeli against the two-state solution. The Arab world, if it seeks Palestinian freedom, should cut Hamas’s money, refuse to give refuge and arrest its leaders undeniably-and then providing maximum assistance to Palestinian leaders interested in co-existence with Israel.
I say that all this is not in the form of a rival of Palestinian freedom, but as is someone who really believes it is necessary for the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
About 15 million people live between the river and the sea, dividing equally between the Jews and the Arabs. Without partition, Israel will either stop becoming Jews or struggle to be democratic.
This seems so clear that Israel who supports business is caricated as religious enthusiasm, racists or idiots. But many people are none of those things – they are just scared. They recall after the 1990s bomb blasts, after the Camp David Summit in the early 2000s, the second Intipada’s bloodshed, and now on 7 October slaughter. This fear cannot be ignored, even if the business is cruel and the Jewish settlements in the West Bank are uncertain.
Palestinians deserve dignity, rights and even the state – if they may agree to demonetisation. But if we stay in the place, then there will be none of it. Now what is needed is maximum pressure on Hamas. One of this is a corolry that the Israeli government will be pressurized to re -join the Palestinian Authority, which Netanyahu has done foolishly. But now recognizing Palestine will probably harden the right -wing forces in Israel.
Recognition should not be used as a reward for terrorism, rather it should be done as an incentive to leave it. Under the medium leadership, the state’s promise should be air -conditioned under reliable steps towards Palestinian unity, disintegration of armed groups and peaceful co -existence. Only then can recognition serve its intended purpose: to support a permanent peace.
France and the UK have no doubt. And it would be helpful to underline a roadmap. But an unconditional recognition will separate the Palestinian extremists, Israelis and make it difficult to achieve a two-state solution. Macron and starrer need to think more carefully.
Dan peri East Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press, Jerusalem is former president of the Foreign Press Association and author of two books.
