LinkedIn blots out comments on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

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LinkedIn operating systems have seemingly enabled 10 of my published comments to be erased during a discussion with a Geopolitical Risk Analyst requesting his assessment of the threat to world peace posed by the continuing failure of the United Nations (UN) to acknowledge the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022.

Hopefully, LinkedIn can explain how this could happen without first obtaining my consent.

Many letters written by me to UN Secretary-General Guterres in the last eight months seeking to know why a complete blanket of silence has descended over the UN following publication of the Saudi-based Plan remain unacknowledged and unanswered.

The UN needs to urgently consider the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution as an alternative to the failed two-state solution first proposed in the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative – which celebrated New York Times political analyst Thomas Friedman has described as being “in hospice”.

This LinkedIn incident occurred on the site of a private special interest group comprising 125000+ members – called the International Relations (IR) and Affairs Group [IRAG]

Operating worldwide since 2009 – the objectives of the Group are highly commendable:

“At the International Relations and Affairs Group, we research foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organisations (IGOs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). We focus on geopolitical analysis, globalisation, international policy issues and apply qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Our focus is analysing as well as formulating solutions to issues with foreign policy, cultural interaction, crisis and others. We also work to globally network members and collaborate for consulting.”

I applied to join the group and was accepted as a member on 10 January.

I had been a member of another LinkedIn special interest group – International Relations Professional Discussions – with 24748 members -until the Administrator booted me from it on 21 September 2022 after I posted this final plea to retain my membership:

“The KSA [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] has not voiced one word of disapproval since [author] Shihabi’s plan [The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine] was released three months ago. Why – when one word would have consigned Shihabi’s plan to the diplomatic shredder.

The publication of Shihabi’s plan in Al-Arabiya news – 60% owned by the Saudi Government could have easily been refused – but was not. Why?

Jordan, the PLO and Hamas have not expressly rejected Shihabi’s Plan. Why?

Are you really going to prevent any discussion on the UN possibly replacing its failed 19 year solution to ending the Arab-Jewish conflict with Shihabi’s Plan?

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the Confederation Plan of Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini as a “useful contribution to try and achieve a lasting solution to the conflict”

Why does Guterres not accord Shihabi’s plan the same recognition?

I am not on my own in questioning the UN continuing to push its failed 19 years-old policy.

Please read the article in Al Jazeera – “It is time Israel, the West admit the two-state solution is dead” https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/9/19/it-is-time-to-acknowledge-the-death-of-the-two-state-solution

I hope you rethink your position before you decide to kick me out.

Given this background – I was happy when a Geopolitical Risk Analyst member in IRAG chose to engage with me – but shocked 21 published comments exchanged between us could seamlessly disappear into thin air.

I have now asked the other 125000+ members:

Would any members of this group like to read the Saudi plan and publish their own analysis of it? The Plan can be read here: https://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2022/06/08/The-Hashemite-Kingdom-of-Palestine.

Successful implementation of this Saudi-based proposal – endorsed by the UN – can end a conflict that has lasted 100 years.

@IsraeliPM,@special_royal,@SecBlinken,@UN_Spokesperson, @alishihabi, @JosepBorrellF hashtag#israelhashtag#palestine hashtag#jordan hashtag#saudiarabia hashtag#middleeast

Please join my Facebook Page: “Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine supporters”

Author’s note: The cartoon — commissioned exclusively for this article — is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators — whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades