Israelis captured Arab East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. “This is much more than a kiss of death to the longstanding international consensus to establish two states as the sole feasible solution,” a former Egyptian high-ranking military official said on condition of anonymity. The Egyptian analyst would not exclude a new armed conflict between the Gulf Arab Sunni states and Shia Iran. This would tragically and dangerously unleash a new wave of hatred and Islamophobia that would only add fuel to popular anger, to the benefit of terrorist groups, Khalil added. since the then British empire released its 1919 Balfour Declaration granting Israel a national home in Palestine.

Source: New Strait Times December 12, 2017 01:30 UTC