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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-new-york-declaration-and-its-two-state-lie/
The "New York Declaration" and Its Two-State Lie
(Times of Israel) Anne Bayefsky - At the UN last week, a three-day confab sought to promote a plan to create a permanent existential threat to the state of Israel and terminate the paradigm of a negotiated settlement. The U.S. and Israel refused to join the antisemitic mob mentality or to sign on to the "New York Declaration," which sets out to impose on Israel what Palestinians want instead of facilitating negotiations between the parties, contrary to legally-binding prior agreements. Led by France and Saudi Arabia, the assembled gang met to conjure up support for immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. The declaration decides all the elements that were supposed to be subject to negotiations as listed in the Oslo agreements, including borders, settlements and Jerusalem. Negotiations are mentioned at the tail end vaguely because there is nothing left to negotiate. It demands Israel hand over fistfuls of money to the Palestinians - in the full knowledge that those dollars bankroll the pay-to-slay outrage. A Palestinian state is to come before "mutual recognition" of the Jewish state. It obscenely equates innocent Israeli hostages with Palestinian convicts having blood on their hands. It supports the Hamas practice of denying Palestinians a host of human rights: the right to flee, the right to leave any country including one's own, and the right to seek asylum. It supports the deployment of international troops allegedly to protect Palestinian civilians, without Israeli approval. It preposterously praises the Palestinian Authority, which it claims should "continue implementing its credible reform agenda" - despite the fact that the PA has failed to implement any credible reforms for thirty years. It talks about protection of "legal and historical...Islamic and Christian" claims in Jerusalem and says nothing about Jewish claims, Jewish history, or Judaism's holiest sites. The writer is president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.