It’s a symbolic gesture that gives Palestine the right to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, but unless concrete action is taken to establish a Palestinian state it’s just empty rhetoric designed to prop up Western hegemony in the Middle East.

Those who have hitherto facilitated genocide fall between two stools, they want credit for belatedly acknowledging what we’ve known all along without upsetting Israel. We’ve just removed one stool, and left Israel supporters balancing precariously on the other while waving their hands in the air and spouting nonsense!

The first requirement of a sovereign state is self determination, which means that Hamas should participate in elections, although they’ve indicated that they’re willing to abdicate power if another power structure can be put in place. At present that looks like being the Palestine Authority, which is subservient to the occupying power like Vichy France.

Trump’s ‘peace plan’, in reality a demand for the unconditional surrender of Hamas, makes no mention of Palestinian sovereignty. He sees Gaza as a valuable piece of colonial real estate to be managed by Tony Blair. I doubt if idiots who have repeatedly parroted the phrase “Release the hostages and the bombs will stop,” will cease doing so now that the hostages have been released and the bombs keep falling. Netenyahu has made it clear it was never about the hostages and Hamas have apparently concluded that they were worthless as a bargaining chip, just extra mouths to feed!

Another requirement of a sovereign nation is its ability to defend itself from aggressors. The redline that Hamas has consistently drawn is that it will not give up its weapons, as Israel demands, but is amenable to their militia groups being integrated into a Palestinian Army – and there a plenty of precedents for this.

I fear that only military intervention can establish a Palestinian State, I don’t mean a UN peacekeeping force because that presupposes there’s peace to keep, but Israel has made it clear that they won’t stop in annexing Palestine from the river to the sea, they want the whole of the Middle East!

A two-state solution based on the 1967 boundaries is absurd, it presupposes that both Israel and Palestine have three non-contiguous with narrow corridors between them. This is just apartheid in a cloak of respectability!

Peace in the Middle East is impossible as long as the Zionist state of Israel continues to exist, but the establishment of a Palestinian state doesn’t require the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Those who been active in the genocide should see themselves in The Hague and those cheering from the sidelines can emigrate to any country that will accept them. Those who are willing to live under a democratic regime in which all ethnicities are treated equally would be allowed to remain, but such a regime cannot be imposed and sovereignty requires independence of any foreign power.

We’ve become so accustomed to doing whatever Washington decrees that we’re in danger of losing our own sovereignty!