The outcome of our people’s steadfastness and sacrifices, and one of the fruits of global popular movements and the world’s conviction in the justice of our cause

Ladies and Gentlemen in the parties and global political and popular frameworks,
Greetings and appreciation.

The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine extends its warmest greetings, together with deep gratitude and appreciation for the honorable positions expressed by the peoples, parties, and movements worldwide in support of our just struggle for freedom and independence. Out of loyalty to our martyrs and to the sacrifices of our people, we place before you this brief overview of the course of international recognition of the State of Palestine, and the practical steps required to translate this recognition into a tangible reality on the ground.

Palestine Between Partition and International Recognition
On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The former was established through Zionist violence and terror, backed by the support of colonial Western powers, while the Palestinian state was obstructed. Since that date, our people have continued to struggle for the establishment of their state.
We welcome the international recognitions of the State of Palestine as the outcome of the Palestinian people’s resilience and their attachment to their land, through a long struggle and enormous sacrifices that continue today in the form of rivers of blood in Gaza and the West Bank. These recognitions are also one of the fruits of the worldwide popular movements and the growing conviction in the justice of our cause, after the collapse of the Israeli historical narrative and the exposure of its falsehood, based on myths and fabricated claims.

Israeli Blackmail in the Face of International Recognition
Israel’s threats to respond to the growing international recognition of the State of Palestine by imposing annexation plans in the West Bank are nothing more than blatant blackmail, aimed at deterring the Palestinian people from pursuing their path toward freedom and independence. These threats, however, expose the true nature of Israel as a fascist state, hostile to international law and human rights, rooted in ethnic cleansing, hatred, and racism. They also highlight the crisis of the Zionist project and its inevitable demise, as it is a project unsustainable in a world governed by values of democracy, human rights, and respect for peoples and their cultures and identities.
International Recognition: Correcting a Historical Wrong
The world’s recognition of the State of Palestine is not merely symbolic; it carries profound political, diplomatic, and legal significance. It redraws the contours of a balanced solution: the end of occupation, the dismantling of settlements, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the June 4, 1967 borders and with Jerusalem as its capital, while guaranteeing the right of return for refugees in accordance with UN Resolution 194.
Yet these recognitions, however important, will not be complete unless translated into reality on the ground, through securing full UN membership and providing all forms of political, economic, and legal support to enable Palestine to exercise sovereignty over its liberated land, free from occupation and settlement.

Beyond Oslo: Palestinian Alternatives
The Oslo phase has come to an end—both temporally (five years after its implementation in 1994) and practically, through the re-occupation of the West Bank in 2002 and the escalation of settlement activity. We now face three options:
• The Israeli option, based on annexation and the imposition of settlement facts;
• The American option, maintaining the status quo and transforming temporary autonomy into a permanent condition;
• The Palestinian national option, which serves the people’s interests: declaring and exercising Palestinian sovereignty, based on Resolution 181 and the 1988 Declaration of Independence, opening the way for serious negotiations on the basis of a conflict between two states—not between an occupier and an unarmed people.

Toward a Palestinian Counter-Reality
Confronting the Israeli-imposed reality requires creating a Palestinian counter-reality, based on declaring sovereignty and implementing it on the ground, while liberating the national decision from the failed wagers of past decades on American initiatives. Protecting the achievement of statehood and its international recognition is a major national responsibility, requiring the combined efforts of all Palestinian forces, supported by the solidarity of Arab and international allies, and of all who believe in the right of peoples to self-determination.

Conclusion
Resolutions 181 and 194 form the legal foundation for the Palestinian people’s right to an independent state. Today, decades after this right has been denied, the growing international recognition of the State of Palestine represents a historic opportunity that must be transformed into a tangible reality. Reliance on international justice and UN legitimacy must be coupled with active Palestinian struggle, so that the State of Palestine becomes an actual fact, not merely recognition on paper.
We are confident that safeguarding the achievement of statehood and its international recognition is a Palestinian national struggle, and the responsibility of all our people’s forces. Yet this struggle also requires the support and solidarity of our Arab brothers, international allies, and all those committed to justice and the right of peoples to determine their own destiny. Without such support, international recognition risks being emptied of its substance and turned into a tool to adapt to the occupation.
We are therefore heading into the battle to embody the State of Palestine on its land, within the June 4, 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital, in direct confrontation with Israel’s annexation scheme already being implemented on the ground. This battle requires from all forces of freedom and solidarity with our people, and from all states that have recognized Palestine, the use of all instruments of international law to compel the Israeli occupation and its supporters to submit to the will of the international community.