So, basically and in summary, this went according to plan for Hamas? They’re being rewarded for October 7th, and this isn’t over, & won’t be, until the map (can I say map? I won’t post a pic of one here) is redrawn eventually with Israel relegated to history like Siam or Persia? One unified swath of contiguous Muslim countries, and then the focus can be on the extremities as opposed to the centre, with places like India and Spain? Something like that?
Is Hamas committed to now stepping down, allowing the PA to take over, disbanding and disarming, etc…(?)…or not? Aren’t they “an integral part of the fabric of Palestine” and so on and so forth?
No I have not watched the speech in its entirety in the UN with many many countries representatives walking out during it, by Netanyahu, but I did watch a seven minute video of that highlights, etc…& at least Canada’s Carney didn’t participate in that childish showmanship for PR value.
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I hope Mahmoud Abbas actually follows through on the commitments that he was presented with, but I don’t have high hopes, and I don’t think he will be in power in a year anyway. He’s 89yrs old, corrupt as hell, and equally unpopular in both Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas isn’t unaware of this, & with these 150-ish nations, rewarding them in the UN, it’s not gonna help negotiations between Israel & Hamas to end this current goat rodeo.
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Anyway, where is Palestine at on the criteria to form statehood? The international legal criteria for statehood require that a nascent state have:
a) a permanent population;

b) a defined territory;

c) a government with effective control over that population and territory;

and
d) capacity to enter into relations with other states?

Maybe a portion of a portion of Palestine at this point?
e) does any of this really matter at this point?
The UN this week effectively squashed the Oslo accords, which created the PA from the PLO, so they’ve got that going for them I guess as far as legitimacy goes. I’m sure Hamas is also aware of this and it just needs to hang in there dragging this out for another year or so…until maybe ‘Palestine’ might actually follow through on the commitment to have an election.
In the
Six-Day War in 1967, Israel
occupied the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, which had been “held” by
Jordan and
Egypt respectively…for almost two decades, and it never dawned on either
Jordan or
Egypt to form a Palestinian state in that period.
Where do
Jordan and
Egypt stand on this today? What’s different now compared to then? Seems a bit hypocritical, but that’s also neither here nor there.
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en.wikipedia.org
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This question may forever remain a mystery. Does that put us back to negotiations between “Israel” & “Palestine” for “mutually agreed upon” land swaps between the two of them (?) or something else?
As far as the references to the biblical names of Judea & Samaria, so back in early 1950, how many here on this forum where alive in biblical times before the West Bank was named the West Bank by Jordan 75 years ago? Is that question outside of the statute of limitations for this conversation though? What was that war about again?