The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?

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Article

Publication Date

8-15-2025

Publisher

Arab Center Washington DC

Language

en-US

Abstract

The New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” is the outcome document of the conference of the same name held from July 28-30, 2025, in New York.i Signed by 16 countries as well as by the European Union (EU) and the League of Arab States, the Declaration commits to a peace plan that would deliver a permanent end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the principle of a two-state solution. The seven-page Declaration outlines a time-bound set of steps to achieve the agreed objectives and specifies in four sections how the signatories plan to: 1) end the war in Gaza; 2) empower a sovereign and economically viable Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel in peace and security; 3) combat ‘illegal unilateral measures’ that might jeopardize the two-state solution; and 4) achieve regional integration after ending the conflict. The 17-page Annex to the Declaration summarizes the proposals and recommendations submitted by Conference working groups for future discussion. Despite the Declaration’s ambitious objectives, the framework to which the signatories have committed reflects the same strategy that Arab and Western states and the EU have pursued for decades: pressure the Palestinians to negotiate and end the armed struggle against the occupation in return for international efforts that promise to bring about the so-called two-state solution.

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