One State in Palestine A. Hany Hassanain

The last trial to start a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations had no better luck than the previous ones. Does anybody believe that the Two-States solution is applicable or does it have a chance to be even stillbirth? Apparently both sides use negotiations for other causes. The Israelis use it to complicate the situation until it reaches a point when clashes start it confiscate new Palestinian lands in the West Bank. God only knows why the Palestinian Authorities go to these negotiation rounds.

Then it is a losing game to insist on the Two States solution. In fact they will be three states unless the terrorist Hamas was removed by force from Gaza. Moreover the Israeli neighbors have the right for security. It is clear that Hamas has connections with Al-Qaeda. The presence of Hamas as a terrorist group serves the Israeli cause more than the Palestinian one and it poses a threat to both Egypt and to the new unborn Palestinian state. Another question what if the conspiracy called the Arab spring reached the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority lost against Hamas. This scenario poses threat to Jordan also.

It was proved that the Americans paid eight billion dollars to the Brotherhood terrorist group that has connections with Al-Qaeda also to leave about forty percent of the Sinai desert to Hamas to create the alternative state so that Israelis keep their settlements in the West Bank. The Egyptian 30 June revolution that angered Obama’s administration exposed his conspiracy and trials of the brotherhood group will show the world the details of the conspiracy.

Regardless of the solution, this conspiracy put Egyptian security and its land on the stalk if a Palestinian State would be created without prior control over terrorism. That means the day this state is created is the day that the Egyptian Army should invade Gaza to prevent its very existence on the Egyptian borders if Hamas is present. Therefore the negotiation table between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority is in fact a plan to set the zero hour for the next big Middle East war.

Is there an alternative to that impractical resolution? Sure the One-State solution, that unite the whole historical Palestine in a secular state with equal rights for all its citizens. The new state should be secular, democratic and without big army that threats its neighbors. It is better for the new state to have some sort of economic union with Jordan.

Is time is suitable to change the rules of the game? The US sponsors the Israeli security and right to exist. It also sponsors all terrorists groups that create chaos in the Middle East to prevent its people from real development and to over-control oil fields in the region. Any statements from the American Administration about democracy and/or human rights are just empty words to convince the American taxpayers that their money is used with good intention. And these statements are used to cover the American conspiracies and to convince people in the Middle East that the American values direct their policies. In short, the reality is that the US tries to remain on the top of the world order and it cares about oil only.

Obama’s internal and foreign policies harmed the US and its position much. As a consequence it is an opportunity for the Middle East to devise its own strategy and policy and in fact a world with multi-polar system will be much better for the world and for the Middle East.

When Egypt signed the peace treaty with Israel it accepted Israel a state in the region but not a regional superpower. And when it fought for the Palestinian cause and supported the Palestinian rights to have a state it never put the Palestinian cause above the Egyptian national security or its sovereignty. What Hamas did and its support for terrorists who fight and kill the Egyptian soldiers day and night put the Palestinian cause at crossroads. For Egyptians there is no difference now between the Israelis who occupied Sinai and they will do if they have the chance, and the Palestinians who want to take parts of Sinai. The choice for the Palestinians now it is either one state with the Israelis to live together or no state as long as their authority in the West Bank cannot expel and try Hamas and control Gaza. Even if the Palestinian Authority could free Gaza arrangements should be taken about the Gaza strip before agreeing to a new state. If the Palestinians and/or the Israelis do not agree to the one state solution, this will open a new chapter in the Middle East that will be written as blood for security after the land for peace formula has failed.