Palestine: Islamic Countries Should Urge the United States to Do More for a Two-State Solution

Palestine: Islamic Countries Should Urge the United States to Do More for a Two-State Solution

Mujeeb Khan

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomes President Joe Biden in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Israeli Police clash with Palestinians in al-Aqsa mosque, 17 April 2022

  It has become a tradition for every American president that the first foreign visit after becoming president is to the Middle East, but President Biden made this trip eighteen months after becoming president. It will reassure the Arab rulers that America is their closest ally. This region is of special importance for the US. The US will defend its strategic interests here. Then the President goes to Israel, where they say to the Israeli government that America will defend Israel. With Israel’s approval, the president then goes to Ramallah to offer his sympathy to the Palestinian Authority for not yet having an independent state. Then convince them that two-state is the only solution to the problem. But then the problem is that in Israel they say America will defend Israel. This means that the US will also defend the occupied Palestinian land by Israel. When President Biden and President Mahmoud Abbas were walking together, both are about 80 years old, and President Biden told Mahmoud Abbas and Mahmoud Abbas told President Biden that two-state is the solution to their problem. President Biden has been talking about a two-state solution to the Palestinians, all his life, and Mahmoud Abbas used to hear this from every president of the United States throughout his life that two-state is the only solution to the problem, but it has never been fulfilled this promise.

 Leaders of Islamic countries said that the Palestine issue would resolve after the end of the Cold War. Then it said that the Palestine problem will be solved after Saddam Hussein’s problem is solved. Saddam Hussein is a major obstacle in solving this issue. Then it said that the Palestinians would have to bring in new leadership. Yasir Arafat had gone, and Mahmoud Abbas came with the new leadership of the Palestinians. The US kept the Palestinians on the sidelines of the two-state solution and allowed Israel to build new Jewish settlements between Palestinian territories. During this period, Israel settled half a million Jewish settlements in the deep Palestinian territories. Clashes between Jewish settlers in the midst of a dense Palestinian population are a major problem. In the media, it is described as Palestinians' attacks on Israeli Jews. The Arabs were engaged in the war against terrorism, the war in Iraq, the war in Syria, the war in Libya, and the war in Yemen against Al Qaeda. On the one hand, the Arabs were engaged in these wars, and on the other hand, Iran threatened the Arab rulers. Thirdly, the Middle East is divided into a Shia-Sunni tussle. It was US-Israel propaganda that Iran’s influence was increasing in the Middle East. Arab rulers in the Middle East were under the influence of America. In this case, the Iranian influence would have challenged the American influence in the Middle East. For six years it said that Iran was helping the Houthis in the war with Saudi Arabia, but America made a cease-fire within hours. And there has been silence in front of Saudi Arabia and Yemen for two months. Iran is in its place within its borders. Iran has not occupied even an inch of anyone’s land. Iran has repeatedly called for a ban on lethal weapons, including nuclear weapons, in the Middle East. But America, Europe, and Israel do not consider this demand of Iran to be in their interest. Their only insistence is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, and the arms trade will continue in the Middle East.

 Trying to isolate Iran in the Middle East was not possible. For stability in the Middle East, the Arab countries considered it necessary to join Iran. In this regard, they have also made some progress in the dialogues with Iran. In the current situation of the world, the regional countries must make a policy to solve the problems of the region in the region. Now Arab Islamic countries are pressured to recognize Israel and establish diplomatic relations with it. Islamic countries that were close allies of America in the Cold War, for fifty years have been pushing America to resolve the Palestinian conflict. After the 1973 Arab-Israel war, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto pleaded with President Nixon at the White House to please resolve the Palestinian issue, it will become a major threat to world peace and stability. After 9/11, Malaysian President Mahathir Mohammad asked President George Bush to resolve the Palestinian conflict. Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf and other leaders of Islamic countries also urged President Bush to resolve the Palestinian conflict, but no American president had listened to Islamic countries. They kept the Palestine conflict alive. President Biden made promises in his recent meeting with Palestinian leaders. But this is only to the extent of words and promises. There is nothing to happen, what Israel wants will happen?