The international community may be divided. But it is
important to find a political solution to address core issues in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We need a coalition supporting human solidarity
to revive the peace process and to achieve equality and justice.
اضافة اعلان
What are the rules of war? It is a timely question to ask in
the wake of attacks on civilians, aid workers, and hospitals in
Israel and the Gaza Strip. International humanitarian law is as old as
war. The laws represent the very minimum rules to preserve humanity in some of
the worst situations known to mankind.
The refrain from Israel continues to be, “
move out from the north to the south,” yet the pivotal question remains; “south
where?”
Seventy percent of people in Gaza are Palestinians displaced in 1948 from
areas now known as the State of Israel.
Over the past five decades, since 1972, the United States
has vetoed at least
45 UN
Security Council resolutions that are critical of Israel—with the
most recent being on 18 October 2023, which called for an immediate
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The need for both a political solution and a framework agreement that would lay out the parameters on core issues like land, the status of Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and security is of vital importance.
The need for both a political solution and a framework
agreement that would lay out the parameters on core issues like land, the
status of Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and security is of vital
importance. At the United Nations General Assembly, the US delegation, as we
remember in November 2012,
voted against Resolution
67/19 to elevate Palestine to the status of a non-member observer state. And to
this day, this resolution played a key role in blocking UNSC
Resolution of
December 2014 that called for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders within
three years.
Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, Israel has
not followed any UN Resolution adopted regarding the Palestinians, with the
United States aiding and abetting. Today, one can argue that the United
Nations, as an organization, is sidelined.
Therefore, one is bound to ask: where is the coalition of the willing and caring who uphold the ethics of human solidarity.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seized of the idea
of Palestine and its vulnerability in international law. By contesting the
jurisdiction of the ICC and the impartiality of the United Nations, the will of
the international community to realize peace has become politically divided
into the axis of resistance and the coalition against terror. Therefore, one is
bound to ask: where is the coalition of the willing and caring who uphold the
ethics of human solidarity.
A peace process can be revived, and peaceful consultations
can be engaged. Not only for Palestinian particularity and peculiarity, but
with the will of peace-loving people all over the world who are calling for an
end to the occupation.
One must address the problem—the Israeli-Palestinian, or the
Israeli-Arab problem—not only in the context of oppression on both sides, but
the fact of consequences of oppression on all sides.
The rules of war should be applied to us all. But if the UN
Security Council or the Secretary-General of the UN, supported by the
international community, failed to bring us all into alignment with
international rules; then the instability will continue to encourage third
parties to undermine the ultimate goal of peace based on equity and continue to
divide us for generations.
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal was born in Amman in 1947. HRH is the youngest son of Their late Majesties King Talal and Queen Zein El Sharaf, the brother of His late Majesty King Hussein, and the uncle of HM King Abdullah II. Prince Hassan served as Jordan’s Crown Prince from April 1965 until January 1999. HRHs early schooling was in Amman. He later went to Summerfields, followed by Harrow and then Christ Church, Oxford University from where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in Oriental Studies.
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