By Angelo Giuliano
The two-state solution, relentlessly peddled as the answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is a fraudulent mirage—a scam engineered to entrench Zionist domination while crushing Palestinian hopes for sovereignty. The July 2025 announcements by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron to recognize a Palestinian state by September 2025, contingent on Israel's approval of a ceasefire and other conditions, are drenched in hypocrisy. These pledges are not about justice for Palestinians but are cynical acts of virtue signaling, crafted for domestic consumption and to shield these nations from future legal accountability for complicity in Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza. Far from supporting the Palestinian cause, they aim to disarm Hamas—the only credible armed resistance to Zionist oppression—while propping up the Zionist regime with weapons that fuel the ongoing genocide.
This deception has deep roots in the 1947 UN Partition Plan, which handed over 55% of historic Palestine to a Zionist state, despite a smaller Jewish population, paving the way for the Nakba—the catastrophic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948. Today's two-state proposals perpetuate this theft, offering Palestinians a patchwork of bantustans under the Palestinian Authority (PA), a toothless entity subservient to Zionist control. With over 700,000 settlers now colonizing the West Bank, Israel's relentless land grabs have obliterated any chance of a viable Palestinian state. Starmer and Macron's conditional recognition, tethered to Israel's whims, is a cruel farce that grants the Zionist regime veto power over Palestinian self-determination, ensuring the occupation's stranglehold while masquerading as progress.
Central to this betrayal is the insidious demand for Hamas's disarmament, cloaked as a step toward peace but designed to dismantle the Palestinian people's only effective resistance against Zionist aggression. Hamas, for all its flaws, stands as a defiant bulwark against Israel's military tyranny in Gaza, challenging the Zionist project's relentless expansion. By pushing to strip Hamas of its arms, Starmer and Macron aim to leave Palestinians defenseless, paving the way for unchallenged Zionist domination. This is not about peace but about neutralizing the Palestinian struggle to appease Israel.
The hypocrisy is glaring. Both the UK and France continue arming Israel, supplying weapons used to slaughter over 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, according to Gaza's health ministry. The UK funnels F-35 jet components to Israel, ignoring MPs' demands for legal accountability. France, while shedding crocodile tears over Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe, maintains military ties with the Zionist regime. These actions expose their statehood pledges as hollow theatrics, aimed at placating domestic audiences while fueling the genocide in Gaza, where Israel's aid blockades have unleashed famine. Starmer and Macron's virtue signaling is a calculated ploy to dodge future reckoning for abetting Israel's crimes against humanity, but history will judge these accomplices harshly.
The two-state framework's failures are evident in past negotiations like the Oslo Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. Oslo birthed a PA shackled by Zionist oversight, while settlements mushroomed. Camp David collapsed over borders and Jerusalem, sidelining Palestinian refugees' right of return. Palestinians are trapped in fragmented enclaves, deprived of water, airspace, and resources—a system of apartheid, not a path to liberation. The 2025 UN summit on the two-state solution is yet another empty spectacle, generating headlines without challenging Zionist expansion. By demanding Hamas's disarmament while ignoring Israel's occupation and land theft, Starmer and Macron betray the Palestinian cause, aligning with the Zionist regime while deflecting blame for Gaza's atrocities. Their announcements are a knife in the back of Palestinian resilience, propping up a genocidal regime under the guise of peace, but the Palestinian struggle endures, and history will not forgive those who enabled this injustice.
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