2025-09-10
Al-Raya Newspaper:
Answer to a Question
The American Strategy and the Two-State Solution
The Question:
We know that the American strategy regarding the establishment of a Jewish entity in the heart of the Islamic countries has mostly been based on the two-state solution. However, during Trump's era, there was a retreat from it, or at least silence about it, which made it questionable. For example, Trump said (When I look at the map of the Middle East, I find Israel is a very small spot. In fact, I said is there any way to get the areas? It's very small... Sky News, 8/19/2024). Does this mean that America's two-state solution project has died and is over, or does it remain? Thank you.
The Answer:
In order for the answer to be clear, we present the following:
1- In 1959, at the end of Eisenhower's rule, America adopted its project for a two-state solution, which can be summarized as (supporting and preserving the Jewish entity and establishing an entity for the Palestinians alongside it). Then its agents in the region, most notably the Egyptian regime, began working to implement the project, and for this purpose, the Palestine Liberation Organization was established. However, Britain, through the Jordanian regime, strongly opposed the project and adopted the project of a secular Palestinian state dominated by Jews, similar to the secular state of Lebanon controlled by Christians, for governance in Palestine.
2- All of this was when the West Bank was under Jordanian rule and Gaza was under Egyptian rule, but when the West Bank and Gaza, along with Sinai and the Golan Heights, fell under the control of the Jewish entity in a theatrical war in June 1967, the focus was no longer on establishing a Palestinian state, but on the withdrawal of the Jewish entity from these occupied territories based on Security Council Resolution 242. Then America put the Palestinian file aside and began preparing for a maneuvering war, so the October war of 1973 was to move the peace process, and the Egyptian regime, headed by Anwar Sadat, signed the Camp David Accords in September 1978. The Jewish entity withdrew from Sinai under this agreement, with its remaining limited weapons as a buffer zone protecting the entity's borders, and it is still so despite the genocidal war waged by the criminal entity in Gaza on the Sinai border!
3- Then America moved to the northern front and instructed the Jewish entity to invade Lebanon in 1982 to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization from there and force it to recognize the Jewish entity and conclude a peace agreement with it. The head of the organization, Yasser Arafat, signed this on 7/25/1982 in what was known as the McCloskey document, in which he said: "The organization now recognizes Israel's right to exist." In 1988, Arafat announced at the Palestinian National Council, which convened in Algeria, as well as at a meeting before the United Nations in New York, his acceptance of the establishment of a Palestinian state. Then Britain and its agent, the King of Jordan, agreed to disengage from the West Bank in this year.
4- After that, America convened the Madrid Conference in 1991 to proceed with the implementation of its two-state solution project. Then the Oslo Accords were concluded between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jewish entity in 1993 for the organization to officially recognize the Jewish entity. The Wadi Araba agreement (10/26/1994) was also concluded between the entity and Jordan for Jordan to relinquish the West Bank, which was under its control, and then announce its recognition of the Jewish entity. America embraced and contained the two agreements to implement its two-state solution project. After the end of the two Bush terms at the end of 2008, Obama came to power in Washington. He requested direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish entity under American auspices on 9/2/2010, hoping that the two-state solution would be implemented within a year. However, the negotiations ended without reaching an agreement.
5- After the two terms of Obama at the end of 2016, Trump came to power at the beginning of 2017 and continued his first term, then fell in the elections and was succeeded by Biden at the beginning of 2021. After the end of Biden's term, Trump succeeded again in the elections and became president at the beginning of 2025.
In these two stages, i.e., the stages of Trump and Biden, a different approach emerged from the previous American presidents. Since America announced its approach to the two-state solution, the former presidents mentioned the solution without going into details about the Palestinian state. Shortsighted people thought that the Palestinians would be given a sovereign state in part of Palestine. When Trump and Biden came, they entered into some details that what is given to the Palestinians is a demilitarized state similar to a limited self-rule with no power or strength, but dominated by Jews, with some differences between them in the strength and ambiguity of the statement! Here the questions arose: Has America's two-state solution project ended, or has it not ended and remains ongoing? It is worth mentioning that the statement of the Jews about Palestine has no weight except by a rope from the people (America), so the American statement is the subject of research:
6- By carefully considering the issue the following becomes clear:
A- We have already answered a question on 2/23/2017 regarding the two-state solution after Trump took office for his first term, which stated:
[(1- The text of the statements made by US President Trump, as reported by all global and local media outlets and as broadcast live, is: "US President Donald Trump on Wednesday recorded a new distinction in American policy towards the Middle East after confirming that the two-state solution is not the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, pointing out that he is open to alternative options if they lead to peace. All previous US presidents, both Republican and Democratic, had defended the two-state solution... (France24 website, 2/16/2017) He said ("I am looking at the two-state solution and the one-state solution.. If Israel and the Palestinians are happy, I will be happy with the "solution" they prefer, both solutions suit me".. Al-Jazeera Mubasher website, 2/16/2017), and the one-state solution that America mentioned for the first time by Trump was not clarified by Trump, so does it mean giving self-rule to the Palestinians within one Jewish state?! Or does it mean a secular state in which the Palestinians participate in the administration of the Jewish state, which is similar to the British project that Britain presented in 1939 when it issued the White Paper, which is in the form of Lebanon? Knowing that the two-state solution project is America's own project, which it presented since 1959 during the era of Republican President Eisenhower, and made what is called the international community accept it and struck the one-state solution that Britain presented. Whatever the case, what appears from considering these statements and their evidence is that America has not abandoned its two-state solution project, as the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, confirmed this, saying: ("First and foremost, the two-state solution is what we support. And anyone who says that the United States does not support the two-state solution would be wrong... We certainly support the two-state solution, but we are also thinking outside the box.. it is something that is needed to bring these two sides to the table and that is what we need to get them to agree"... Reuters 2/16/2017)] This confirms that Trump has not abandoned the two-state solution, which is the declared policy of the American state since 1959, but wanted to try another method of pressure.. as his ambassador said (We certainly support the two-state solution, but we are also thinking outside the box..) i.e. using other methods.
B- Trump's (Republican) statements accelerated regarding supporting the Jews in the first and second stages of his presidency:
* (US President Donald Trump announced the United States' recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of "Israel".. Trump also confirmed that the United States supports the two-state solution if approved by the Israelis and Palestinians.. BBC, 12/6/2017)
* US President Trump said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings ("He believes that the best option for the Palestinians and Israel is the two-state solution" and added "It is my dream to be able to do that before the end of my first term" BBC, 9/26/2018)
* US President Trump said (When I look at the map of the Middle East, I find Israel is a very small spot. In fact, I said is there any way to get the areas? It's very small... Sky News, 8/19/2014).
* (Earlier today, US President Donald Trump renewed his confirmation of his plan for the United States to control Gaza and deport the Palestinians from it, saying that he is "committed to buying and owning Gaza".. BBC, 2/10/2025), then he returned after ten days and stated (that he will not impose a plan to displace the Palestinians from Gaza, but "suggests it".. CNN, 2/21/2025) and that is for the sake of playing with words!
C- On the other hand, Biden's (Democratic) statements have sometimes exceeded Trump's statements in supporting the Jews:
* When Trump fell in the elections and was replaced by Biden at the beginning of 2021, America returned to talking about establishing a Palestinian state in some way without specifying its form and location. US President Joe Biden mentioned in statements to reporters on 9/3/2024 (that there are a number of patterns for a two-state solution, noting that several countries in the United Nations do not have their own armed forces) That is, Biden is referring to a state for the Palestinians of those patterns without armed forces, i.e. self-rule or the like!
* When US President Biden visited Tel Aviv on 10/18/2023 following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, he met with officials there and said: ("Israel" must return to being a safe place for Jews. And if there was no "Israel", we would work to establish it.. Al-Jazeera, 10/18/2023)
* Biden said in a speech at the White House while celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights (Hanukkah) he said: ("You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist and I am a Zionist" Middle East, 12/12/2023).
7- By considering the previous answer to the question, as well as these statements and positions, it becomes clear that there is no major disagreement between the positions of Trump and Biden except in some methods that do not change the essence of the issue. The United States is the one that manages this issue on the basis of two states: a state for the Jews in most of Palestine that it supports financially, militarily and internationally, and even regionally through its agents and followers of the rulers in the Muslim countries. A state (self-rule) for the Palestinians in a part of part of Palestine, demilitarized, with Jewish hegemony over it!! Regardless of the desire of the "Authority and the agent rulers" to call it a Palestinian state, this does not change anything from its reality. America does not want it to be a sovereign state, even on part of part of Palestine, but rather similar to self-rule without weapons except what is necessary for a police force within the Jewish hegemony!! Two factors to consolidate the Jewish entity have emerged in the eras of Trump and Biden, confirming what we mentioned above, even if their emergence was more pronounced in the era of Trump, namely:
The first, which is in place today, is to strengthen the Jewish entity and supply it with money and weapons so that it remains the major power that surpasses all its surroundings militarily.
The second, normalization, in what Trump called the Abraham Accords. He has gone half the way in his first term and wants to complete it today. Therefore, the American envoys are roaming the region not only to convince Saudi Arabia to join what is called the "Abraham" Accords, but are carrying out practical paving and opening negotiations that are underway today between Syria and Lebanon with the Jewish entity, and America wants to expand this to include other agent rulers in the Muslim countries!
In conclusion, America has not abandoned the two-state solution, but it announced in the era of Trump and Biden that the intended meaning of the state of Palestine is that it is similar to self-rule dominated by Jews. As for the previous presidents, they mentioned the two-state solution without going into the nature of the state they want for the Palestinians!
8- Finally, Palestine is a jewel in the history of Muslims since God Almighty linked it with His Sacred House with a single bond, as He took His Messenger ﷺ on a night journey from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque ﴿Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed﴾, making it a good and blessed land. It drew the hearts of Muslims to the capital of Palestine (Jerusalem) by making it their first Qibla before God made the Muslims' second Qibla (the Holy Kaaba) after the Hijra for sixteen months. This was before Palestine came under the authority of Islam when the second Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, opened it in the year 15 AH and received it from Sophronius and gave him his famous covenant (the Omar Covenant), which contained, based on the request of the Christians, (that no Jews should live with them).. Then Palestine was a graveyard for the Crusaders and the Tatars.. there were decisive battles with the Crusaders and the Tatars: Hattin (583 AH - 1187 AD), and Ain Jalut (658 AH - 1260 AD), and, God willing, other decisive battles with the Jews will follow to restore Palestine pure and unsullied to the lands of Islam.
The continuation of the Jewish entity in Palestine until today is not due to strength in them. They are not people of fighting and victory, but as God Almighty said: ﴿They will not harm you except for [some] annoyance. And if they fight you, they will show you their backs; then they will not be victorious.﴾, but their survival is due to the betrayal of the rulers in the Muslim countries. The misfortune of the Muslims is in their rulers. They are loyal to the infidel colonizers, enemies of Islam and Muslims. They see and hear the occupation of Palestine by the Jews and their brutal crimes and various massacres, yet it is as if they do not see and do not hear ﴿Deaf, dumb and blind, so they will not return.﴾! They have prevented the armies from helping their brothers in Gaza Hashim until today, and the martyrs are doubling and the wounded are increasing. The rulers are watching what is happening, and the best of them is the one who counts the martyrs under the name of the dead and then counts the wounded as if he is a neutral party, but closer to the Jews! They put the "chair" above their country and people! However, this nation is the best nation brought out for mankind, so it will not remain silent, God willing, for long on this coercive rule by these despicable people, as the Messenger of God ﷺ gave us glad tidings of the return of the Rightly-Guided Caliphate after this coercive kingdom, as stated in the Musnad of Imam Ahmad and Al-Tayalisi from Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman: «... Then there will be a coercive kingdom, and it will be as God wills it to be, then He will raise it when He wills to raise it, then there will be a Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood». At that time, the Muslims will be honored and the disbelievers will be humiliated ﴿And that day the believers will rejoice * In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful﴾.. The strange and amazing thing is that the disbelievers, especially the Jews, realize this more than many Muslims today.. The Jews realize that their destruction lies in the Caliphate, as their prime minister said in a press conference broadcast directly by the media, including Al-Jazeera, on 4/21/2025: ("We will not allow the establishment of a Caliphate on the Mediterranean coast." He added, "We will not accept the existence of a Caliphate state here or in Lebanon and we are working to ensure the security of Israel").. But it will be established, God willing, despite their wishes and remove them from this pure land, especially since Hizb ut-Tahrir, the party that is sincere to God Almighty and truthful with the Messenger of God ﷺ, is leading the work to establish the Caliphate with men who have been true to what they have covenanted with God, and they are confident in God's victory: ﴿And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.﴾.
Tenth of Rabi' al-Awwal 1447 AH
2025/9/2 AD
Source: Al-Raya Newspaper