The UN Is a Major Obstacle to a Two-State Solution in the Mideast

In a year marked by so much misery and misfortune, a rare bright spot in 2020 was Israel’s historic diplomatic breakthroughs with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

For decades, the operating assumption was that peace between Israel and the Arab world was contingent on a signed agreement acceptable to the Palestinians. That is no longer the case.

Still, peace with the Palestinians is not only desirable; it is essential.

But to achieve peace, the decades of demonization and delegitimization of Israel in the Palestinian media, mosques, and schools will have to be overcome.

The thorniest obstacle is the continued official Palestinian adherence to the so-called “right of return” — the demand that over five million Palestinians who are descendants (sometimes very distant) of refugees from the 1948 war be permitted to “return” to their original homes in what is now Israel. Such a move would alter the demographic nature of Israel and effectively end its existence as a democratic Jewish State.

Of course, no Israeli government would ever acquiesce to a demand that would lead to the country’s demise.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/01/21/the-un-is-a-major-obstacle-to-a-two-state-solution-in-the-mideast/