The U.S. Role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Its Impact on the Two-State Solution

Abstract

The Arab-Zionist conflict, or rather the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is a recurring and enduring issue. By tracing the intellectual and organizational roots of its emergence back to the late 19th century, the growing dangers of this conflict to the Arab region became apparent following the rise of the Zionist movement in 1897 during the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland, led by the Austrian Theodor Herzl. This project began to reinvent itself, renew its tools, and expand its risks toward the Arab region—particularly Palestinian territories—after Jewish nationalism transformed from a spiritual religious bond into a shared national and political identity, and from a theoretical ideological project into a political Zionist movement, followed by an expansionist colonial military project. It advocates for a homeland to gather the Jewish diaspora alone, with the aim of occupying and controlling Palestinian lands in accordance with a distorted and extremist Jewish ideology built upon the deceptive Zionist slogan that Palestine is the "Promised Land," and based on alleged texts falsely attributed to the Torah claiming that Palestine is "a land without a people for a people without a land."

This represents a dangerous racist tendency that relies on denying the existence of the Palestinian people and their right to live in peace in their historical homeland, where they have lived for thousands of years. Furthermore, the racist Zionist occupation seeks to expand with the intention of occupying Arab lands surrounding Palestine, bypassing the treaties and peace agreements concluded between the Arab-Palestinian side and the Israeli side under American auspices. However, the occupation has worked to obstruct the implementation of the provisions committed to in favor of the Arab-Palestinian side, resorting instead to implementing a policy of "threat, expansion, and hegemony" over the Arab region after securing immunity from international punishment and ensuring unlimited American bias in its favor, as is currently the case in the region. Many areas—such as the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria—continue to suffer under these conditions, which have aborted peace settlement paths and hindered the two-state solution to this day.