UN self-destructing in pursuit of dead two-state solution

The drafters of the United Nations Charter included article 80 to ensure that the unfinished business of self-determination for the Jewish people laid out in the Mandate for Palestine did not disappear with the disbandment of the League of Nations in 1945.

The Palestinian People had not rated a mention in the Mandate for one simple reason: No such "People" existed until 1964 when the founding Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization created and defined this "People" - whilst simultaneously expressly disclaiming sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza.

In 1975 the UN General Assembly first displayed its contempt for the rights vested in the Jewish people when it established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) - and requested it to recommend a programme of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced. The General Assembly established the Division for Palestinian Rights as its secretariat and, throughout the years, has gradually expanded the Committee's mandate and its vitriolic attacks condemning Israel.

Israel's Parliament rejected any two-state solution on 23 July by a majority of 71-13.

While the UN seeks a state for the Palestinian people on land promised to the Jewish People under the Mandate and article 80 of the UN Charter – this long- running conflict will continue and the United Nations will become increasingly irrelevant in resolving it.