Afrasianet - The New York Declaration issued by the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Two-State Solution received broad support from the United Nations General Assembly with a majority of 142 countries, and the joint statement of the presidency of the conference, Saudi Arabia and France, considered this exceptional endorsement as an affirmation of the unwavering international commitment to the two-state solution, and that it "charts an irreversible path to building a better future for the Palestinians, Israelis and all the peoples of the region."
The declaration was accompanied by international moves in support of this solution, as well as The official Arab and international movements coincide with the efforts of popular movements and the struggles of civil organizations, such as the efforts of the participants in the Freedom Flotilla, which amounted to more than 50 ships bound for Gaza, as well as the efforts of a large number of human rights organizations, similar to what the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing, which is pursuing Israeli officers and soldiers accused of committing crimes All these developments would not have happened without major changes in world public opinion that sympathize with the Palestinians and condemn the ongoing Israeli genocide against them, despite the severe repression that some anti-genocide organizations have been subjected to, as happened with Palstein Action, which was declared a terrorist organization by Britain, and what happened in American universities.
In contrast to the joy expressed by the Palestinians at the recent international recognitions, remarkable voices saw the recognition as "empty symbolism", as Mustafa Barghouti, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said, as it does not change the reality of the "one state and apartheid" imposed by Israel on the Palestinians, nor the reality of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
The most explicit statement on the issue came from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who said during the aforementioned conference that "a two-state solution is impossible when one of them is the victim of genocide," considering that the conference is "a moral rebellion" and a "collective commitment to stop brutality and pave the way for peace." Guterres offered a possible course of action by promising to activate the legally binding interim measures issued by the International Court of Justice in the case of the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The deadline given by the International Court of Justice to Israel expired on the 18th of this month, but the Jewish state, instead of ending its occupation, dismantling its illegal settlements, and evacuating its settlers, announced its intention to expand Settlement activity, and possibly annexation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and publicly published plans for the resettlement of Gaza, accelerating the process of exterminating the population of the Gaza Strip through a campaign of genocide and widespread starvation.
The great catastrophe created by Israel, and the escalating international atmosphere that we are witnessing, require that the Security Council, or the General Assembly, define the obligations binding on Israel as an occupying Power, and that international efforts be focused on a resolution that enshrines the authority of the General Assembly to take collective action that is ready and able to act.
These are the steps that are required internationally, and they are the legal measure necessary to stop the genocide and it is the separator between brute force and right. As Guterres said, "The measures stipulated by the International Court of Justice must be fully and immediately implemented," and this is what he is required to lead personally.