While the UN General Assembly resolution is a moral booster for Palestinians, it is of little practical value. To have some bite, the resolution has to be from the UN Security Council. However, there is little likelihood of that since the US will veto any resolution which was even mildly critical of Israel.
It is really shameful to see Muslims, being 1.6 billion strong, and having 57 states, playing absolutely no role at the international level. And for this situation, they have themselves to blame. And the situation has arisen because instead of presenting a united stand against their enemies, they dissipate their energy - whatever it is - by fighting each other.
And unfortunately, with the coming to power of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) a stage has now reached where the Saudi Arabia, which once was a strong supporter of Palestinians' cause, has abandoned them altogether, and is rather cooperating with Israel and and the United States against Iran, a fellow Muslim state though of a different sect.
And after deceiving Palestinians for decades with a two-state solution, an attempt is now being made to fool them again, through a one-state lollipop this time. In fact, articles are now appearing even in Pakistani media in support of the one-state solution.
I am reproducing below the link in respect of one such article, followed by my comment on that:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1413574/american-embassy-shift
Comment by S.R.H. Hashmi:
First of all, the embassy move was not just symbolic as the writer has chosen to describe it as. And then she portrays the killing of 62 Palestinians in just one day - in addition to dozens of others Palestinians killed and thousands wounded - as the result of massive violence in the overcrowded Gaza strip which was in fact purely a massacre by Israeli soldiers, as proved by absence of fatality on Israeli side.
And then quoting sources, including some Palestinians, she seems to encourage South Africa like, one-state solution for Palestine.
However, those quoting South African example ignore the basic fact that in South Africa, whites were less than ten percent of the total population. Additionally, South Africans did not have the US presidents and their administration at their service, like the Israelis have, which relations have now grown to family connections. Moreover, the Europeans and other western countries have been squarely on Israel's side and even now, they do no proceed beyond symbolic gestures towards Palestinians' cause, which was not the case with South Africa.
For a few decades, the west kept fooling Palestinians with the two-state story and now they have another ploy to do the same in the form of one-state solution, which they are recommending through paid content and other means.
And Talat Rasheed's lashing of Saudi Arabia and Iran for not solving Palestinian problem for 70 years are the thoughts of a completely degenerated and sold-out soul. In fact, Saudi government had offered normalization or relations of Muslim states with Israel subject to satisfactory solution of Palestinian problem. And only a fool could blame Iran for not solving Israeli-Palestinian problem.
Two-state solution still remains the only practical solution of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Why can't some troublesome illegal settlements by Israelis removed to give Palestinians a contiguous piece of land with East Jerusalem as capital, in the vast land that belonged wholly to them not all that far back? After all, just how much land Israel needs for its six million Jewish population?
And if the international community can't solve the problem with a two-state solution now, it could hardly restrain Israelis from pushing the remaining Palestinians to Jordan, which Israel already claims to be an Israeli state in existence. Of course the talk of one-state solution is nothing but a ploy to give Israel time and opportunity to accomplish that.
Karachi
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted by a strong majority of 120 countries an Arab-backed resolution condemning Israel for Palestinian deaths in Gaza and rejected a US bid to put the blame on Hamas.
At least 129 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during protests near the border with Gaza that began at the end of March. No Israelis have died.
The resolution put forward by Algeria and Turkey on behalf of Arab and Muslim countries won 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions.
An amendment presented by the United States condemning Hamas for "inciting violence" along the border with Gaza failed to garner the two-third majority needed for adoption.
Addressing the assembly, US Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed the resolution as biased against Israel and accused Arab countries of trying to score political points at home by seeking to condemn Israel at the United Nations.
"For some, attacking Israel is their favourite political sport. That’s why we are here today," said Haley.
"I wish everyone supporting this one-sided resolution would put as much energy into encouraging President Abbas to the negotiating table," she said.
The resolution deplored Israel’s use of "excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force" against Palestinian civilians and called for protection measures for Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Arab countries backing the measure turned to the General Assembly after the United States used its veto in the Security Council to block the resolution on June 1.
Unlike the Security Council, resolutions adopted by the assembly are non-binding and there is no veto.
UN chief to propose protection
The resolution tasks UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres with the drafting of proposals for an "international protection mechanism" for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
These could range from setting up an observer mission to a full-blown peacekeeping force, but action on any option would require backing from the Security Council, where the United States has veto power.
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour dismissed the US amendments blaming Hamas as "games and gimmicks" and urged ambassadors not to be "fooled" by the US proposal.
"We are asking for a simple thing," Mansour told the assembly. "We want our civilian population to be protected."
Turkey’s Ambassador Feridun Hadi Sinirlioglu defended the resolution, saying it was "about taking sides with international law" and showing the Palestinians that the world "does care about their suffering."
Taking the podium, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon assailed the measure as an "attempt to take away our basic right to self-defence." He warned ambassadors that by supporting the resolution "you are empowering Hamas."
The US amendment condemning Hamas received 62 votes in favour, with 58 against and 42 abstentions. The United States sought to challenge the ruling requiring a two-thirds majority but that was defeated in a separate vote.
"We had more countries on the right side than the wrong side," Haley said in a statement.
The General Assembly last held a similarly contentious vote on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in December, when it rejected President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there.
Haley had warned at the time that Washington was "taking names" of countries that supported the resolution. That vote was 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions.
Backed by Arab countries, the Palestinians had lobbied to win as many votes as those cast in support of the Jerusalem resolution.
https://www.geo.tv/latest/199191-120-nations-at-un-condemn-israels-excessive-force-in-gaza
