HOW TO CELEBRATE PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Fernando Alcoforado*

This article aims to demonstrate how to celebrate peace between Israel and Palestine to prevent this conflict from evolving into a regional war between Arabs and Israelis and even a new world war involving the great powers. The recent events in which the Hamas Palestinians who command the Gaza Strip carried out a terrorist action on October 7th, killing 1,400 Israeli civilians and kidnapping more than 200 hostages and launching rockets on Israeli cities and the Israeli government retaliates by launching bombs and rockets indiscriminately targeting the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, killing, to date, more than 7,000 Palestinians and turning Gaza into rubble, in addition to the ground offensive by the Israeli army with the purpose of annihilating Hamas, need to end immediately to end the bloodbath, especially of the population of the Gaza Strip.

While the Israeli government fights Hamas and massacres the population of Gaza, Hezbollah, an anti-Israeli group supported by the Iranian government, attacks Israeli posts on the border with Lebanon, increasing tensions in the north of Israeli territory, whose residents in the region were taken to the south of the country. On 10/18, Hezbollah attacked several Israeli army posts along the border with Lebanon with nine rockets, four of which were intercepted by Israeli air defense. In total, at least five Israeli soldiers, 11 Hezbollah members and five Palestinian militants were killed in the exchanges. An Israeli civilian died in an attack on 10/15, while two Lebanese civilians and a journalist were also killed in the conflict.

It is worth noting that the current conflict between the Israeli government and the Palestinians of Hamas is also contributing to intensifying tensions between Israelis and the population of 3.2 million Palestinian inhabitants who live in the 11 cities or administrative areas that make up the West Bank, administered by the Palestinian National Authority by decision of the UN, which has been experiencing a progressive occupation of its territory by Israeli settlers for years with the military control of the Israeli government. The number of Palestinian deaths in the West Bank has reached 73 since the start of the war, in addition to the arrest of 524 people linked to armed groups. Hamas incites residents of the West Bank to resist and attack Israeli soldiers? who operate there. Rulers of Arab countries show first signs of resistance against the massacre of Gaza by Israel and there are many people demonstrations in Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries pressuring their governments to take action. There have been protests in support of Palestinians in at least 16 countries, including the United States.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the West was "the main culprit of the massacres in Gaza" and accused Israel of committing "war crimes". In an aggressive speech, the Turkish head of state challenged Western powers, blaming them for "creating an atmosphere of crusades" against Muslims. The Egyptian government begins to make stronger statements against the massacre of the population of Gaza by Israel. It is possible that there will be a large popular mobilization in the Arab world against Israel. If Israel does not stop the massacre of the population of the Gaza Strip, the tendency is for anti-Israeli groups such as Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, as well as Arab countries to enter the conflict against Israel to force the Israeli government to stop the murder of population of the Gaza Strip and negotiate the end to the conflict.???

Peace needs to be celebrated between Palestinians and Israelis to stop the violence between the two brotherly peoples and end the bloodbath taking place in the region. Palestinians demand to establish a sovereign and independent Palestinian State. Most Palestinians accept the West Bank and Gaza Strip regions as territory for a future Palestinian state. Many Israelis also accept this solution. A discussion around this solution took place during the Oslo Accords, signed in September 1993 between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which allowed the formation of the ANP (Palestinian National Authority). Despite the return of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank to Palestinian control, a final agreement has yet to be reached. To achieve this, it is necessary to resolve the main points of contention, which are the dispute over Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the end of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

It can be said that there is only one solution to the conflict between Palestine and Israel: on the one hand, Israel needs to accept the constitution of the Palestinian State, seek a fair and negotiated solution on Jerusalem accepting that this city is administered by the UN and on the fate of Palestinian refugees, as well as ending Jewish settlements in the West Bank and, on the other hand, the Palestinians need to accept that Jerusalem is administered by the UN and recognize the State of Israel because neither Palestinians nor Israelis can impose their will on each other. Neither the Israeli extremist groups in power in Israel can continue to maintain the tyranny they exercise against the Palestinian people, nor can the Palestinian extremist group Hamas destroy the State of Israel. There is, therefore, only one solution to the conflict in the region: for Jews and Palestinians to celebrate peace and conciliation in the terms presented above. To this end, the UN and the rulers of peace-loving countries must mobilize to achieve this objective in the Middle East in the face of the inability of the great powers to achieve it.

This would be the way to avoid the continuation of the Israel-Palestine conflict, which is already unfolding into a civil war in Israel between Palestinians and Israelis that could evolve into a regional war involving all countries in the region. Without this solution, Israel's victory with the annihilation of Hamas members from the Gaza Strip and the transformation of Gaza into a tomb for its civilian population will increase the hatred of Palestinians and Arabs against the Jews and impede any possibility of coexistence peace between Jews and Palestinians in the region in the future. This scenario will also cause anti-Semitism to spread even further throughout the world. This scenario could become the epicenter of a regional war that could evolve into a global conflict with the involvement of major military powers with the United States and European Union countries on the side of Israel and Russia and China on the side of the Palestinians. We need to prevent the Israel-Palestine conflict from becoming, therefore,? the epicenter of a new regional war and the 3rd World War. Only peace between Palestinians and Jews will avoid the worst for their people and for all humanity.

* Fernando Alcoforado, awarded the medal of Engineering Merit of the CONFEA / CREA System, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, of the SBPC- Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science and of IPB- Polytechnic Institute of Bahia, engineer from the UFBA Polytechnic School and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional Development from the University of Barcelona, college professor (Engineering, Economy and Administration) and consultant in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, regional planning, urban planning and energy systems, was Advisor to the Vice President of Engineering and Technology at LIGHT S.A. Electric power distribution company from Rio de Janeiro, Strategic Planning Coordinator of CEPED- Bahia Research and Development Center, Undersecretary of Energy of the State of Bahia, Secretary of Planning of Salvador, is the author of the books Globaliza??o (Editora Nobel, S?o Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova (Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, S?o Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, S?o Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado. Universidade de Barcelona,https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944 , 2003), Globaliza??o e Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, S?o Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporanea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, S?o Paulo, 2010), Amaz?nia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, S?o Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econ?mico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudan?a Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revolu??es Científicas, Econ?micas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016), A Inven??o de um novo Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017),? Esquerda x Direita e a sua convergência (Associa??o Baiana de Imprensa, Salvador, 2018), Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2019), A humanidade amea?ada e as estratégias para sua sobrevivência (Editora Dialética, S?o Paulo, 2021), A escalada da ciência e da tecnologia e sua contribui??o ao progresso e à sobrevivência da humanidade (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2022), a chapter in the book Flood Handbook (CRC Press,? Boca Raton, Florida United States, 2022), How to protect human beings from threats to their existence and avoid the extinction of humanity (Generis Publishing, Europe, Republic of Moldova, Chi?in?u, 2023) and A revolu??o da educa??o necessária ao Brasil na era contemporanea (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2023).?