Press Release

The Two-State Solution: A Lifeline for the Jewish Entity, Not for Palestine

(Translated)

The number of Western countries promoting their call for a two-state solution as a moral and just step is increasing. But anyone who looks behind the facade sees that it has nothing to do with sympathy for the Palestinians or recognition of their "right to freedom." On the contrary: it is an urgent political measure, driven by pressure from their peoples and the imminent loss of legitimacy of the Jewish entity.

Public opinion is changing in the West, as more and more people are facing the facts: the systematic destruction of Gaza, the ethnic cleansing, and the genocide that can be followed directly on their screens. Governments that have protected the Jewish entity for decades without deterrence are now feeling pressure from their audiences, not because they have suddenly sympathized with the plight of the Palestinians, but because it is no longer acceptable to stand by the Jewish entity unconditionally.

In addition, Western countries are becoming increasingly aware of their legal and moral weakness. The International Court of Justice is talking about genocide, human rights organizations are intensifying their reports, and the complicity of Western governments is becoming increasingly clear. Not only actual complicity, but also passive complicity, through the continued supply of arms, diplomatic cover, and political legitimacy.

This does not in any way mean abandoning the eternal allegiance to the Jewish entity, but on the contrary, the protest is only directed at Netanyahu and his current approach, because this approach is what exposes the Jewish entity itself. If the Jews continue in this way, with constant war and destruction, support for its existence regionally and internationally will diminish. For this specific reason, the two-state solution is being revived: not to save Palestine, but as a guarantee for the future of the Jewish entity.

In the Western vision, this Palestinian state must meet its conditions: completely demilitarized, under the supervision of the Jewish entity, and in accordance with Western standards and values. A state without real sovereignty, fully subject to the colonial project embodied by the Jewish entity since 1948. In other words: a state that does not end the occupation and domination, but entrenches them.

Even if two states are established, what will happen to all the suffering caused by the Jewish entity over 77 years? To the destruction of Gaza, the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, and the looted lands? Nothing at all. Just as the Western colonial projects in Islamic countries did not face the consequences of their crimes of oppression, looting, and destruction.

Therefore, it is necessary for Muslims not to respond to these false solutions emotionally, but with the vision that Islam provides them. Palestine is not a humanitarian file waiting for Western charity. It is an Islamic issue, and the solution does not lie in the mercy of the bloodsucking secular, colonial, capitalist countries, but in the liberation of Palestine by the Muslims themselves. Only then can the victims be given justice, and the colonial project in the heart of the Islamic countries be ended. The two-state solution may seem like a step towards peace, but in reality it is an attempt to save the Jewish entity from collapse, and to spare the West the burden of complicity with it.

Okay Pala

The media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Netherlands