A Two-State Solution, Not A Final Solution

The following statement was written for the upcoming UN meeting on the two-state solution.

On July 28–29, 2025, France and Saudi Arabia are convening a conference on a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Originally scheduled for mid-June, the conference was postponed in response to antagonistic pressure.

President of France Emmanuel Macron, who has spoken out in favor of the two-state solution and allowed rumors to circulate that France might even take the opportunity of the conference to finally recognize the State of Palestine, has now reportedly decided not to attend.

In 1975, American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche proposed his Oasis Plan to address the shared geological realities of the people of Israel and Palestine, who inhabit an arid region located at the connection of three continents. The essential developments of water infrastructure to make the deserts bloom, and transportation connectivity to allow the blossoming of trade and production, were central to his vision of the economic development plans required for political solutions to be reached.

The genocide against the Palestinian people being conducted by the Israeli government, is occurring against a backdrop of broader conflict. NATO is conducting a war against Russia, using the territory of Ukraine as the battlefield and the people of Ukraine as disposable tools to effect the defeat of Moscow. Anglo-American military planners and “think” tanks demand that the conflict with Russia be concluded quickly, so they can train their sights on China.

The British Empire, in its latest guise of financial and social imperialism backed up by American military might, is conducting a policy of generalized warfare, stoking conflicts around the world, because it is terrified of the enormous potential for change that will accompany the already overdue collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system.

What actions can be taken to reign in the sickening crimes of the State of Israel, and to put the world on track to enjoy a new era of peaceful win-win cooperation, rather than the zero-sum thinking that currently dominates extended European thought?

Israel—along with its enablers, such as the U.S. and the U.K.—must be held accountable for its crimes. The UN Security Council has shown itself unable to act, but the international community, including the General Assembly, has the power to force Israel to cease its murderous rampage.

The 1950 UN General Assembly “Uniting for Peace” resolution 377 (V) provides for convening Emergency Special Sessions (ESSs) of the General Assembly to take up security issues that the UN Security Council has failed to address. Eleven such sessions have been convened, with five focused on Israeli actions, including the first ESS, on 1956 Suez Crisis. The UN General Assembly directly called for military measures to be taken to end the conflict.

Consider the role the UN played in ending the apartheid state of South Africa:

In 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 1761, which excoriated the government of South Africa for its refusal to abandon its racial policies, demanded that it obey the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council to do so, and formally requested UN member states take measures to compel South Africa to abandon its racist policies.

The demands were extensive: countries were encouraged to break off diplomatic relations with South Africa, close their ports to South Africa–flagged vessels and prohibit their own vessels from entering South African ports, boycott goods from South Africa, end all arms sales to that country, and refuse air travel or overflight permission for South African planes.

On September 30, 1974, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to reject the credentials of the all-white South African delegation. The General Assembly re-affirmed this on November 12, when it again voted by a wide margin to uphold the decision.

On November 4, 1977, the UN Security Council voted up resolution 418, which made mandatory for all member states an arms embargo against South Africa.

The historical success of the international campaign to boycott, divest from, and sanction South Africa — which ended its racial policies and became a democracy in the 1990s — has driven calls to apply the same pressure to Israel, under the acronym BDS.

South Africa is not the only historical precedent for considering Israel today. We must look also to the Germany of the 1930s through 1945.

Ehud Olmert, a former prime minister of Israel (2006–2009), responded to Israeli plans to establish a “humanitarian city” that Palestinians would be allowed to enter, but forbidden from leaving (except to other countries): “It is a concentration camp.”

“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing,” he told The Guardian. “When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have, at least.”

“I cannot refrain from accusing this government of being responsible for war crimes committed,” he added.

On July 15, 2025, the New York Times published an opinion piece written by Dr. Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, under the title “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov, born in Israel, now teaches at Brown University. He writes:

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

July 18 was established in 2009 by the UN as “Nelson Mandela International Day,” and event organizers encourage everyone in the world to mark the birthday of the great South African statesman and president by taking actions to fight poverty and inequality.

South Africa has stood up for the moral conscience of the world by charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose judges consider the claims made under the Genocide Convention to be “plausible” and have demanded the implementation of provisional measures to protect the Palestinian people.

Let us all act to bring about much-needed economic development, through the Oasis Plan for Israel and Palestine, and the Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

Action, and Action Now

We demand:

1. That the United Nations and the international community act to compel Israel to end its genocide, as they acted to force change in the South African apartheid state.

2. That mass humanitarian aid flow into Gaza, through effective agencies, including a restored UNRWA.

3. That governments must support a regional development plan, like LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, not the reprehensible “humanitarian city” proposed by Israel.

4. That Palestine be recognized by the United Nations General Assembly and made a full member state of the UN.