22 February 2017, the House of wisdom Institute for Consultation and Conflict Resolution, in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, held the 8th Intellectual Forum entitled “The Future of the Two State Solution under Trump Management and Alternative Options”
In the presence of a group of writers, analysts, thinkers and researchers, who stressed the need for a unified national Palestinian project beyond the state of Palestinian division, stressing the importance of the work of a global campaign to counter the policies of President Donald Trump, which exceeded international laws.
The minister of culture, Anwar al-Barawi said that his ministry “is keen to deepen the collective work in the Palestinian people because our Palestinian cause needs and deserves to work for them all through close forces to be the greatest strength and fruit.” He added that this forum highlights its importance at this time for many reasons, including the “division, which is the gateway to every deterioration of the Palestinian issue, which reflected negatively on the Palestinian issue, which lives in situations does not please the friend or any Palestinian national believer in his cause.”
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Yousif spoke about the position of the current US administration headed by Trump of the two-state solution, especially with clear statements about this position, which has become behind her back, wondering at the same time, “Will be dealing with this position from the American President in a realistic and what is the new American vision in Region “. He explained that “the Palestinian arena is one of the most busy areas in the position of Trump towards the Palestinian issue, and until this moment this position is not clear overall.
He pointed out that the timing of the Palestinians is dangerous, especially as Israel is working on the issue of settlement expansion and the possibility of annexing the areas in which there are settlements to Israel, stressing that we as Palestinians and as an option this option is better for us than the two-state solution, because the two-state solution will force us sooner or later To give up more than 78% of the Palestinian land to the Jews.
In the same context, Dr. Salah Al-Ati talked about the position of international humanitarian law from the political orientations of the American foreign against the Palestinian state, pointing out that the United States of America was next to the Zionist enemy constantly, and violated all resolutions of international legitimacy, which is more in violation of international humanitarian law in the countries of the world As a whole, the theory of the jungle law prevails over international and humanitarian law.
“The United States stood by the occupying state more than 42 times in the file of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although the United States of America was a sponsor of peace, it has tried throughout history to deviate international and humanitarian law even in the Oslo agreement and pressed the side of the occupation to Neutralizing the dimensions of international and humanitarian law “.
He stressed that the Palestinian people has four scenarios to face the two-state solution: to resume negotiations through pressure on President Abbas or the Palestinian National Authority, to accept the launching of a regional political process, to maintain the status quo, .
At the conclusion of the discussion and the interventions, all stressed the need to restore Palestinian national unity and to build a national strategy based on purely national bases and to end the security coordination and to emphasize the need for the Palestinian Authority and the PLO to adhere to the international legitimacy rules and to go to international forums to confront the Trump policies.
