Security Council rebuffs Guterres bid to fix his Gaza mistakes

Article 80 preserves the right of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza as authorized by articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – shredding Guterres non-stop mantra that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) are illegal in international law.

Guterres stands condemned for what occurred on October 7 by not earlier invoking article 99 to urge the Security Council to consider the circuit-breaking Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on 8 June 2022 to replace the failed two-state solution adopted by the Security Council on 23 December 2016 in Resolution 2334.

HKOPS asserts:

• "Jordanians and Palestinians are as similar as any people can be. They are Sunni Arabs from the same neighborhood. Merging them will not create any long-term ethnic or sectarian fault lines."
• No Arab or Jew will have to leave his current home.

I requested Guterres on many occasions during the 16 months following HKOPS publication to bring HKOPS before the Security Council for consideration to replace the UN's failed two-state solution – pointing out the rapidly deteriorating situation in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Guterres never acknowledged my emails. Had Guterres so acted – October 7 may well have been averted.

Guterres's continuing insistence on stressing the importance of the two-state solution will only serve to ensure the continuation of the 100 years-old unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict – not its resolution.

Guterres should hang his head in shame and resign.