Rejection of two-State solution by Israeli leadership 'unacceptable', says Guterres
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Top diplomats debated the deepening crisis in the Gaza Strip and the whole Middle East in the UN Security Council on Tuesday against the backdrop of Israel’s unrelenting military operation, mounting death toll and escalating global calls for an immediate ceasefire. The UN Secretary-General told ambassadors and foreign ministers that any refusal to accept a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict "must be firmly rejected", as the Council is poised to reconvene on Wednesday afternoon to hear more from the wider UN membership.

“This refusal [of a two-state solution], and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says.

UN council members roundly called for the two-State solution to be realized and for an end to the war, with many calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the suffering of Palestinians and allow the aid they urgently need to be delivered unhindered.

Many speakers from the wider UN membership echoed those calls.

  •  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
    8•10 months ago

    we need to reject Israel and do our best to wipe them off the face of the earth

    We need to differentiate between Israel as an administrative-state/ country, and the literal Israeli people as individuals.

    And “wipe them off the face of the earth” sounds like you’re talking about the latter.

    If you are, please take that rhetoric elsewhere.

    No colonial state has a right to exist, but there is a difference between calling for de-col and calling for ‘wiping [people] off the face of the earth’.

    •  tygerprints   ( @tygerprints@kbin.social ) 
      1•9 months ago

      Wow I went bit over the top didn’t I. I shouldn’t have said we need to wipe the whole state off the face of the earth. Just the bloodthirsty ones.

      I’m not sure Israeli people are to blame, but the government certainly is. And it seems there is no way to get better people into office there.