GENEVA, Saturday, June 29 (WAFA) – Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, stated in a declaration yesterday that any peace plan is destined to fail without the framework of global law. “Without the framework of international law, any peace plan, together with the drawing close suggestion from the US, will crash upon the shoals of political realism,” Lynk was quoted through the reputable Chinese press agency, Xinhua. “Prior plans for Middle East peace during the last five a long time have all failed, in large part, because they did not insist severely upon a rights-based approach to peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” he said.
The Special Rapporteur stated that worldwide law, at the standards of humanitarian protection, human rights, equality, and justice, has been expressed in a number of United Nations resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He stated that Palestinians and Israelis are entitled to the personal and collective human rights enshrined in worldwide law, together with the rights to equality, motion, expression, and affiliation, in addition to freedom from discrimination.
“The international gift consensus supports a two-country solution, which calls for a viable, contiguous and fully sovereign Palestinian kingdom, based at the June 1967 limitations, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and a meaningful transportation link between the West Bank and Gaza,” he remarked. He cited that Israeli settlements throughout East Jerusalem and the West Bank are a “flagrant violation” of international law, according to the United Nations Security Council resolutions. “The settlements could need to be removed, both to comply with worldwide law and to enable a viable and sovereign Palestinian country to emerge. “
