Israel Will Not Allow Two-National Solutions, Reject Allied Recognition Plan

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'a. (Wikimedia Commons/DedaSasha)

JAKARTA - Israel said it would not allow the implementation of a two-state solution and rejected the plan to recognize the Palestinian State by Western allies, which has recently been increasingly voiced.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar vowed Israel "will not allow" the implementation of a two-state solution, urging countries wishing to see Palestinian countries set up for "chaotics on their own territory."

"The Palestinian state at the heart of Israeli soil will indeed be a solution, a solution for those who want to destroy us. We will not allow that to happen," Sa'ar told a briefing in Jerusalem to foreign journalists according to a statement by his office.

"If big countries like France and Canada want to establish Palestinian states on their own territory, they can, they have a lot of space. But here, on Israeli soil, that won't happen," he stressed.

His remarks refer to several Western allies, including Paris and Ottawa, who recently confirmed or made plans to recognize the Palestinian state next month, in part as a way to pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza, and seek to achieve a long-term peace framework.

"The establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 line, with its capital city in East Jerusalem not far from here it will put Israeli population centers in grave danger and push Israel back to the unprotected border," Sa'ar said at the meeting, claiming "such a move would be suicide."

French President Emmanuel Macron has recently announced his country's plans to recognize the Palestinian State at the UN General Assembly in September. This made it the first G7 (Group 7) country to announce this, as reported by ABC.

Following that, Britain and Canada also plan to recognize the Palestinian State. Later, a number of countries also expressed the same intention, including members of the European Union such as Portugal to Malta. A total of 147 of the 193 UN member countries have now recognized or immediately recognized the Palestinian State.

Most recently, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday announced Australia would recognize the Palestinian State, also in September.

Quoted from CNN, a number of European countries and the Caribbean last year had already recognized the Palestinian State, including Spain, Norway, Slovenia, Ireland to Tokyo and Tobago, after only Mexico announced the recognition of the Palestinian State in 2023.

This recognition plan is in line with the growing concern of the humanitarian situation on the Gaza Strip, where the death toll from Israeli attacks and hunger and malnutrition continues to increase.

Medical sources in Gaza confirmed on Wednesday that Palestinian deaths since the conflict broke out on October 7, 2023, had reached 61,722 people, the majority of children and women, while the injured had reached 154,525 people, quoted from WAFA.