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Life & Wisdom Quote by Ali A. Saleh

"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State"

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The sentence reads like diplomacy trying to pass as inevitability. Saleh frames Palestinian statehood not as a demand but as a technical outcome: remove the “Israeli occupation,” follow “international resolutions,” and the state will almost automatically “be establish[ed]” with Jerusalem as its capital. That procedural tone matters. It borrows legitimacy from the language of institutions, suggesting the conflict has already been decided in principle and is merely awaiting implementation. The moral argument is smuggled in through bureaucracy.

The key move is “according to the international resolutions related.” It’s vague on purpose. Instead of naming UN Security Council resolutions or specifying borders, the phrase performs consensus without risking detail, letting different audiences project their preferred legal reference points. It’s a writerly version of a diplomatic umbrella: broad enough to shelter competing interpretations, narrow enough to imply the world is on one side.

“Termination” does heavy rhetorical lifting, too. It implies an occupation that should end, full stop, not be “managed,” “reduced,” or “reformed.” And Jerusalem as capital isn’t treated as negotiable; it’s presented as the logical endpoint of legality. The subtext is a rebuke to incremental peace-process talk: no more interim arrangements, no more “final status” deferrals.

Contextually, this sounds calibrated for international readers and forums where the currency is law and resolution numbers. It’s advocacy dressed as administrative common sense, a way of making a maximal political claim feel like the most reasonable thing in the world.

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Ali A. Saleh is a Writer.

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