Western Pressure on Israel in Support of Palestinian Statehood Will Help Fight Terrorism

Writing on Wednesday New York TimesThe former Minister of Defense of Israel, Beni Gantz, criticized the growing wave of Western governments that realize the situation of Palestine. “The growing support in the West is often framing to recognize as a reprimand by Mr. Netanyahu and his war policies,” Gantz wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The truth is that the international recognition of the Palestinian state under the current circumstances is not a rejection of Mr. Netanyahu. He refused to consider security in Israel.”

On this, at least, Gantz is right.

Writing on Wednesday New York TimesThe former Minister of Defense of Israel, Beni Gantz, criticized the growing wave of Western governments that realize the situation of Palestine. “The growing support in the West is often framing to recognize as a reprimand by Mr. Netanyahu and his war policies,” Gantz wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The truth is that the international recognition of the Palestinian state under the current circumstances is not a rejection of Mr. Netanyahu. He refused to consider security in Israel.”

On this, at least, Gantz is right.

While his article depends on a number of very competing claims, the world is already rejects Israel’s current security consensus. This is a good thing.

It is reasonable and only rejecting any “security consensus” in any country that depends on the apartheid and leads to genocide. In fact, by postponing Israel’s commitment to the two parties to crushing Palestinian rights, Western countries have helped create the crisis we face today. To the extent that recognition of the Palestinian state represents a step towards ending this respect, it is a long -time step in the right direction.

But it is not anywhere close enough.

Mark Lynch and Chelette also wrote my disciple in July Foreign affairs A piece, there is a risk in treating recognition as an end in itself. “If the official recognition becomes an alternative to defending the priority of international law and addressing the basic facts of Palestinian suffering,” they write, “at best it will be a hollow gesture – and in the worst cases a mismanagement is an epic specialization for rare international political capital.”

After recognizing the state of Palestine, Western governments must act in response to continuous colonialism and cutting that country in concrete ways, not just symbolic. All these governments must take steps immediately to support international law and real pressure on the Israeli government to stop their campaign of forced, hungry, and slaughtering in Gaza, as well as their illegal annexation of the West Bank. They must stop arms sales to Israel, suspend other forms of cooperation, and impose the orders of the International Court against Israeli officials involved in human rights violations and war crimes.

Europe should take the initiative in these efforts. The last European Union’s failure to suspend its association with Israel, in the words of the International Amnesty Secretary -General Agnès Callamard, has been “harsh and illegal”, but European Union officials are now reconsidering this decision. The European Union must also consider the suspension of joint research and development projects within the framework of the Horizon Europe program. The individual states of the European Union can also move and must move with its individual measures that oppose violations of international law. Europe is the destination for nearly a third of Israeli exports. Governments must use this leverage and impose a wide ban on trade with Israeli illegal settlements.

Meanwhile, based on US President Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations, the United States will certainly remain part of the problem. But there are things that are still able to do peace in peace in America. Members of congress can sign the measures that support the Palestinian state, such as the speech of the House of Representatives led by Representative Rowa. Senator Jeff Merkeley also made a decision calling on the United States to recognize Palestine, in which a number of his fellow Senate have already participated. But more importantly, Congress must support measures to prevent arms sales to Israel, such as the law of Representative Delia Ramirez for bombs, as well as other rejection decisions to stop more arms transfers. These measures are unlikely to change the US policy in the short term, but they are useful in showing that the era of empty examination in the West of Israel ends.

Return to Gantz. Although no political consensus of a country should be allowed to act as a shield of permanent punishment, the fact is that any solution to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict will have to communicate with the facts of Israeli and Palestinian local policy. For this reason, the countries that impose sanctions on Israel on the elimination of international law must be clear that they will end once the law of Israel has ended. The goal is not to punish Israel, but to secure peaceful coexistence of all people in Israel and Palestine.

With every new Israeli settlement based on the occupied territories, the possibilities of solution of Dalat grow, as is a traditional concept, dull. This, understood, many have concluded that the call to a Palestinian state is an imaginary matter. But so far, Israel has not felt real and tangible consequences for policies aimed at destroying the possibility of a Palestinian state. It is necessary to impose these consequences today to maintain any hope of a just solution.

At the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump claimed that recognition of a Palestinian state was a “reward” of terrorism. But the opposite is closer to the truth: the reward for political recognition. It was the frequent failure in the world to provide in the past that helped Hamas to prosper. Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7 and the barbaric revenge of Israel once again showed that the current situation of occupation and the siege was not sustainable. By admitting that this does not reward terrorism, this is the recognition of reality: people will not simply agree that they are closed forever. In the absence of peaceful tools for liberation, they will choose violent tools.

The end of the genocide in Gaza should be the world’s most urgent priority in the world. If concrete measures followed, then supporting the Palestinian state and self -determination can be an important part of this. The creation of an incredible road for Palestinian liberation is the best way to avoid bloodshed in the future. Closing this path to avoid the reward of terrorism will only lead to more of it.