Two-state solution is not a solution to end Jewish-Arab conflict

stressed the importance of the Palestinian government assuming responsibility in Gaza and recalled that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735 stressed the importance of reunifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.

Resolution 2735 had been drafted by the Biden-Harris administration and adopted by the Security Council on 10 June 2024 - a cosy and collusive solution that is dead in the water.

The Global Alliance needs to look at a revolutionary solution to end the Jewish-Arab conflict - the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) - authored by Ali Shihabi, an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman, and published in the Saudi Government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022.

HKOPS calls for:

• Jordan, Gaza and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be merged into one new territorial entity - "The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine" – to be governed by Jordan – not Hamas or the Palestinian Authority
• Can be expeditiously implemented by redrawing the existing international border between Jordan and Israel

For reasons unexplained HKOPS has never been mentioned once in the UN General Assembly or Security Council since its publication in 2022.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Tor Wennesland, Guterres' personal choice as his new Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process and Personal Representative to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority, are hopelessly conflicted in failing to mention HKOPS once in their mandated reports.

The Global Alliance, in pushing for the failed two-state solution first proposed in 1937, is on an irreversible path to nowhere.