Conflict in Palestine: the confederal solution
After a conflict of unequaled intensity between Israel, on the one hand, and Hamas and other armed groups, on the other hand, which became a war of annihilation of the Palestinian people of Gaza and traumatized the Israeli people, a fragile ceasefire has been partially respected since October 10 2025. This risks perpetuating a permanent occupation of the Palestinian territory by Israel and a political impasse which nevertheless “exploded in everyone’s face on October 7”. It is therefore urgent to think about building a peace that is finally just and lasting.
Most states and the UN seem to favor the creation of a state of Palestine living separately alongside the state of Israel as a solution. However, despite the fact that around 150 states have recognized the State of Palestine and that it is a non-member observer state of the United Nations with enhanced status, this solution has never been truly implemented. On the contrary, its ritual invocation and the reneging of the promise have facilitated the intensification of internationally illegal colonization, despite calls from the International Court of Justice for its cessation and the restitution of land and property or, failing that, compensation for the Palestinians dispossessed thereof (advisory opinions of July 9, 2004 and July 19, 2024), hinders the effective factual existence of a viable State of Palestine without ensuring the security of Israel.
It has further fueled bad faith, extremism, authoritarianism, violence and suffering in both societies. Moreover, the Security Council, adopting the “Trump plan” of September 29, 2025, seems to be returning to its position, contenting itself with asserting in its Resolution 2803 (2025) that once the Palestinian Authority has scrupulously executed its reform program and that the reconstruction of Gaza will have progressed, “the conditions will then perhaps be met for a path created
