Former President Abdulla Yameen has questioned the sincerity of Western leaders backing the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, calling their remorse over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza “too hollow sounding.”
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Yameen criticised the international community’s renewed focus on the Palestinian cause amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, saying it came after “decades of human travesty” and “systematic slaughter” that the world largely ignored.
“Several Western leaders hitherto unbothered about the decades of human travesty in Palestine and now in Gaza seem to repent and show remorse after the annihilation of a human race. A Palestinian State? A mouthful. Just too hollow sounding,” Yameen wrote.
He further accused Israel of targeting civilians and basic humanitarian supplies. “Aid trucks lined up, unable to cross. Baby foods targeted and destroyed while the itch grows with the IDF butchers to slaughter minors and barely legals,” he said, adding that “decades of systematic slaughter and dehumanisation justified just by Oct 7? Baffles intelligence and rattles the dead.”
Yameen also drew parallels with the Holocaust, arguing that global outrage and human rights advocacy often “ceases at the Israeli border.” He said: “The world repented the Holocaust, pages filled the Nazi atrocities. But today the world just looks on.”
The former president criticised narratives framing Hamas as an existential threat to Israel, stating: “A spate of books on Hamas being an existential threat to Israel. Wonder who the real terrorist is. Do you have the courage to sit down with the charts of 1917 – Balfour era? Déjà vu, Macron?”
Yameen’s comments come as the United Nations’ High-Level Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution in New York is underway.
The conference, co-chaired by the foreign ministers of France and Saudi Arabia, aims to advance the implementation of UN resolutions on the Palestinian question and the two-state solution.