The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA) expresses its deep regret and dismay at the inability of the United Nations Security Council, on April 18, to accept full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations. The Council strongly condemns the use of the United States veto power against the Arab draft resolution in question, which was sufficient to overturn the resolution, despite the vote of 12 members of the Security Council in favor of it, and the abstention of two States from voting, at a critical time when the Palestinian cause is at a crossroads, as the Israeli aggression continues its widespread violations against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, since the seventh of last October, in full view of the whole world.
The Council stresses that the blatant American bias towards the occupying Power, at the expense of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their suffering, unequivocally confirms the extent of the moral collapse in favour of short-term colonial policies. It also illustrates the long way the United States has gone in defying the will of the international community, which strongly supports full membership of the State of Palestine. This challenge will only result in the perpetuation of Israeli flagrant violations of the rules of international law and the decisions of international legitimacy without any deterrence, and will never lead to peace and stability, as a result of the imbalance of power between the occupying power, which Washington supports with all its strength and with the latest weapons, and the State of Palestine under occupation.
The Council stresses, in this context, that obstructing the recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to recognize their state as a full member to the UV constitutes a violation of the legal and historical responsibility of the international community towards ending the colonial occupation and reaching a final and just solution to the Palestinian issue.
Supporting the two-state solution undermined by Israel makes the recognition of the Palestinian state a duty of the UN Security Council to prevent Israel from continuing to deprive the Palestinian people of their right to freedom, and in their independent state on the borders of the fourth of June 1967. Its capital is East Jerusalem.
The Council also stresses the urgent need to reform the United Nations Security Council in order to make it a real tool for the maintenance of international peace and security, in accordance with the principles and objectives of the United Nations, and not a tool in the hands of a particular power that preferred to link its diplomacy to the agenda of Israel’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, which pushes the entire Middle East to a dangerous level of comprehensive conflict, not to mention the destructive impact of this irresponsible policy on the chances of establishing a just and lasting peace in the Middle East in the future.
The Council deeply regrets to see the United States of America, the power that claims to lead the “free world”, unable to distance itself from Israel’s crimes and even to be an active accomplice in these crimes in what it continues to claim to be “rules-based order”.
