For Washington, the two -state solution is no longer on the agenda – Liberation
It is a way of making even more chimerical The two -state solution. And also to remove the perspective of an improbable peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The United States Ambassador to Israel rejected any possibility of recognition of a Palestinian State by his country in the near future, in an interview in Jerusalem with the American agency Bloomberg This Tuesday, June 10. « Unless a major change, there is no room for it to happen »said Mike Huckabee, saying that according to him, the formation of such a state would not take place « In our lifetime ».
Not only does he not believe it, but the diplomat, appointed by Donald Trump, believes that the two -state solution, as defended Since the Oslo agreements in 1993 – Despite certain variations according to the American administrations in place – is no longer an objective of American foreign policy. A change of speech which represents a real diplomatic turn for Washington, failing to completely surprise given the unconditional support provided by the current President of the United States in Tel Aviv since his return to the helm.
It was however a common thread of American diplomacy since the presidency of the Democrat Bill Clinton, whose mediation had played a major role in obtaining the 1993 agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (OLP). It is even a republican president, in the person of George W. Bush, who called for the first time in 2002 to the creation of an independent Palestinian State, while the second intifada was raging. This makes the diplomatic about-face announced by the American ambassador all the more unpublished.
In his interview at BloombergMike Huckabee is not content to bury the solution to two states, he completely embraces the colonialist discourse of the Israeli far right. After Trump’s proposal to move Palestinians from Gaza To make the territory a real estate « riviera »here is his representative in Israel who proposes to expel the three million Palestinians from the West Bank – which he renamed « Judea and Samaria » to take up the lexicon of ultraorthodox – to a Muslim country.
Or a form of support or even encouragement for settlers who are increasingly nibbling the occupied Palestinian territories. But also a snub on the Franco-Arab initiative which wants to bring up to date the two-state solution at a conference at the UN headquarters in New York next week.
With this in mind, Emmanuel Macron blew hot and cold on possible recognition of the Palestinian State by Paris, in exchange for recognition of Israel by several Arab countries, Saudi Arabia in mind. The French president thus hoped to pave the way for a resolution of the war in Gaza and notch a perspective to resolution of the conflict.
Mike Huckabee’s statement on Tuesday is part of a series of pressure strokes, especially from the government of Benyamin Netanyahu, to prevent the Palestine conference on the UN to go through anything concrete. In this, the American ambassador to Israel appears as a support support. This pastor Baptiste, former governor of Arkansas, has always defended the Jewish colonies in the West Bank, even if they are considered illegal by many states.
At the microphone of Bloomberghe also defends the very controversial distributions of assistance from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). This organization was put in place by Israel to maintain its blockade from the Palestinian enclave to non -governmental organizations, UN in mind. And the distributions were enamelled with crowd movements in the face of a hungry population, even sometimes fire by private security agents who killed several people. But the American ambassador does not move it: he repeats Israeli propaganda according to which it is the sole solution to feed the Gazaouis without fattening Hamas.
