It is a rare event. Thousands of people gathered on Friday in Jerusalem in favor of peace, while the war in Gaza enters its 20th month, with a alarming humanitarian situation According to the UN and dozens ofIsraeli hostages always captive.
Israel, who resumed his offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two -month truce, announced on Monday a plan “Conquest” of the Palestinian territory which provides for a Massive displacement of its populationarousing many convictions around the world. “Gaza will be completely destroyed,” the Israeli far -right finance minister said on Tuesday, Bezalel Smotrich.
“We cannot leave the extremists of the two camps, who feed on revenge, fear and hatred, decide on our future,” Maoz Inon, 50 -year -old Israeli entrepreneur, and peaceful activist, co -organizer of this popular peaceful summit held on Friday.
“Even if they control our present, we have to choose an alternative and shape a different future,” he added. The event was organized by a coalition of around 60 local organizations working for a political resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A two -state solution on the 1967 borders
On this occasion, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the ex-chief of Palestinian diplomacy Nasser al-Kidwa presented their peace plan, unveiled for the first time last year. The latter expressed himself by videoconferencing since the occupied West Bank
Nasser Al-Kidwa Kidwa, nephew of the ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafathad called for a “Amicable divorce” with Mahmoud Abbas And to a new unit of Palestinian political leadership, including certain members of Hamas.
“Only a solution to two states can allow a radical change for our country and the whole region,” said the centrist predecessor of the current Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu. “You have to end the war and withdraw from Gaza. Gaza is Palestinian (…) and must be part of a Palestinian state, “he argued.
He called for the establishment of an “internal security force” under the Palestinian authority, endowed with “objective powers (…) to rebuild the Gaza band without the participation” of Hamas. The former chief of Palestinian diplomacy said that their peace proposal was based on a two -state solution, including an exchange of 4.4 % of territory between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
An exchange of territories
According to the plan unveiled last year, Israel annexed the main Jewish colonies to the West Bank, including certain areas around Jerusalem. In return, an Israeli territory of equivalent area would be sold to a future Palestinian state, they said. Their vision of a two -state solution is based on the borders of Israel of June 4, 1967, before the occupation of the West Bank.
The Olmet-Kidwa plan also advocates shared sovereignty on the old town of Jerusalem, with a guardianship of which Israel and a Palestinian state would be part.
