Xi Jinping wants a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital
Xi Jinping has a solution to the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict.
Speaking to the Arab League in Cairo, the Chinese president announced that he supports the notion of a full Palestinian state, and said that eastern Jerusalem should serve as the new country’s capital.
“China firmly supports the Middle East peace process and supports the establishment of a State of Palestine enjoying full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders,” Xi told delegates yesterday (Jan. 21). “We understand the legitimate aspirations of Palestine to integrate into the international community as a state.”
Such a statement puts China directly in the middle of a tense standoff between Israel and Palestine. East Jerusalem was controlled by Jordan from 1949, but fell under Israeli control following the Six-Day War in 1967. Israel says that the city–home to sites of religious importance to both Muslims and Jews—should remain undivided, but Palestinians argue that East Jerusalem ought to be their capital.
Xi’s announcement is unusual given China’s official policy of “non-intervention.” Beijing usually avoids ethical issues when dealing with foreign governments, in part to dodge criticism of its own domestic human rights abuses. An increasingly active China could risk eroding Beijing’s defense against criticisms from other governments.
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And so ? What's your point ?
Does anyone deny China's abysmal human right record? Can you point to anything in those links you provided?
I could also post a bunch of completely irrelevant links on Chinese restaurants in Miami if you want?
Can you tell us all briefly so we can all understand what you're getting at?
While the UN partition plan for Palestine (Resolution 181) didn't take the right to self-determination of the Arab population living there into account, it would have been a much better alternative than civil war.
I think it's extremely important to point out that the Jewish state would have had 498 000 Jews and 325 000 Arabs, and the partition plan explicitly stated that Jews and Arabs would have equal rights: "Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non-discriminatory rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association;". While I don't believe that the 1947 borders are viable today (were they ever?), I do think that the people who were displaced by war should be able to return, which would be in spirit with the partition plan resolution and a few other other ones passed after 1947. It's pretty obvious that the "Jewish state" as envisaged in the Partition Plan is not the kind of "Jewish state" we have today, where Arab Israelis don't have full civil rights.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine
