The Middle East Peace Process and the quest for a viable State of Palestine have become kind of a “Holy Grail.” The seeds of its failure are embedded in the very genesis of the Palestinian issue and the lack of sincere efforts by parties concerned. The infamous “Balfour Declaration” and the “Sykes-Picot” agreement have completed a century of open wounds.
The Oslo Accords which made some laudable efforts to settle the matter have also crossed 25 years without much success, except recognising the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and introducing some semblance of autonomy in Ramallah and Gaza that provide a format of a State in the modern parlance. The internecine conflict between the Fatah and the Hamas, two main Palestinian political parties, has also delayed a solution.
The Israelis have been unrelenting in their anti-Palestine stand, fearing extremism and resultant security concerns, while the Palestinians, spread over many countries, continue to demand the State as enshrined in the UN Resolutions. Experience shows that the UN Resolutions are for the weak only, with the mighty getting away with whatever they want, under the existing unilateral functioning of international discourse.
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