The Trump administration says it boycotted a United Nations conference promoting the two-state solution on Monday, calling the event a “publicity stunt” and an “insult.”

“This week, the U.N. will serve as host to an unproductive and ill-timed conference on the two-state solution in New York City,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. “This is a publicity stunt that comes in the middle of delicate diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.”

Bruce said the conference will “prolong the war, embolden Hamas, and reward its obstruction and undermine real-world efforts to achieve peace.”

Instead of participating, Bruce said the United States will continue leading efforts to end the fighting and deliver a permanent peace.

“Our focus remains on serious diplomacy: not stage-managed conferences designed to manufacture the appearance of relevance,” she said.

The boycott comes after President Donald Trump drew attention to what he described as “real starvation” in Gaza.

.@POTUS on Gaza: “We’ll be helping with the food … We’re also going to make sure that they don’t have barriers stopping people … We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.” pic.twitter.com/zcFiVYCxrE

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“We’ll be helping with the food,” Trump said. “We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.”

Bruce also criticized French President Emmanuel Macron for announcing that France will formally recognize a Palestinian state this September during the United Nations General Assembly, claiming the move was “welcomed by Hamas.” She added that such announcements obstruct ceasefire negotiations and undercut diplomatic efforts to end the war in Gaza.

“As Secretary Rubio has made clear, this effort is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th and a reward for terrorism,” she said. “It keeps hostages trapped in tunnels.”

Netanyahu fired back at Macron, claiming the announcement “rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became.”

“A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it,” Netanyahu added. “Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel.”

The conference, co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France, was rescheduled from June to July due to Israel’s war with Iran, according to Jewish News Syndicate.

During the opening remarks, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that participants “must ensure that it does not become another exercise in well-meaning rhetoric.”

“The path to peace starts with recognizing the state of Palestine and preserving it from destruction,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said. “The rights of all peoples must be respected, the sovereignty of all states must be ensured. Palestine, and its people can no longer be the exception.”

There has never been a Palestinian state. Prior to Israeli occupation, Judea and Samaria were occupied by Jordan, and Gaza by Egypt.

Israeli Minister of Finance Betzalel Smotrich said France’s announcement provides a “compelling reason” to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

“I thank President Macron for providing yet another compelling reason to finally apply Israeli sovereignty over the historic regions of Judea and Samaria, and to definitively abandon the failed concept of establishing a Palestinian terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel,” he wrote. “This will be our fitting Zionist response to the one-sided pressure and coercive measures led by President Macron and his allies.”

Last week, Israel’s Knesset voted in favor of a declaratory resolution in support of applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley in a vote of 71-13.

“The Knesset affirms that the State of Israel has a natural, historical, and legal right to the entirety of the Land of Israel – the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people,” the resolution reads. “The Knesset calls upon the cabinet of Israel to act promptly to extend Israeli sovereignty, including law, jurisdiction, and administration, over all areas of Jewish communities, in all its forms, in Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley.”

More than 500,000 Israelis live in Judea and Samaria.

Legacy media are aligned with the Democratic Party. They would like you to ignore the fact that the Democratic Party has never been less popular than it is now.

A new poll from The Wall Street Journal found that Democrats’ popularity is at its lowest point in three decades. Whatever the media keep telling you about the unpopularity of President Trump, Democrats remain far more unpopular. People may not like certain aspects of what President Trump is doing, but they do trust that Trump is going to be responsive to reality in a way that Democrats simply are not.

Democrats are in serious trouble. And the reason is because they are totally and completely out of touch.

Trump is winning an outsized share of Latinos, blacks, and Asian Americans. Why? Because the Democratic Party, as it took over all of America’s institutions, disconnected itself from normal Americans.

The Democratic Party made a couple of major mistakes. They decided to implement the most radical social values you could possibly imagine. The radical LGBTQ+-¸ wing of the Democratic Party alienated a number of minorities, many of whom are still very much ensconced in church and family. If the price of moving along with the Democrats is that you have to believe boys can become girls, that is a major issue for a huge number of Americans. And yet, Democrats seem preternaturally obsessed with that issue.

Another mistake: The elite members of the Democratic Party remain upper-crust white liberals and fellow travelers like Barack Obama, who made common cause with those upper-crust elite white liberals and felt very safe and comfortable in those particular circles.

There is a tendency among those elites to believe that all minorities feel the same way; there’s a flattening of all minority racial groups into one giant blob: “people of color.”

But that’s not the way anyone thinks of themselves. Nobody thinks of themselves that way. If you ask a white voter, they could be of Polish extraction or Italian extraction or Jewish extraction or German extraction or Irish extraction, among others. Each voter has their own agenda.

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There’s been an attempt in America to flatten all of these distinctions out. But those distinctions are very real in terms of how people see themselves in terms of identity.

So when you tell an Asian American that their interests are identical to those of a black American or tell a black American that his interests are identical to those of a Latino American, in some cases, the answer is yes, because we’re all individuals. But in some cases, the answer is very much no.

Optimism and hope for the future come from the Right, not the Left, for whom the racial identity is still the core of their political beliefs.

Appealing to disaffected voters of color on their racial identity alone has rung hollow.

President Trump has pointed the spear at one of the things that Americans hate most, which is this belief that if you say something outside of the purview of the Left, you ought to be canceled.

One of the effects of this has been a massive backlash. President Trump is the symptom and cause of this backlash against political correctness, wokeness, and cancel culture.

Someone being criticized is not cancel culture. Cancellation is when you lose a job or are removed from a platform.

The problem for the Left is that they decreased the so-called Overton Window — the window of acceptable discourse — to be so narrow that virtually everybody ended up being in danger of cancellation. And then President Trump blew the window wide open.

The era of the censorious Left, the upper-crust Harvard liberal who speaks down and patronizes minorities and then shuts the Overton window so nobody can speak differently, is ending.

Democrats don’t know what to do about it. So now they simply rage against the machine.

The Democratic Party is on the ropes — but there is an incipient danger. That danger comes in the form of the splintering that is happening on the Right.

With the destruction of the institutions by the Left, there are no replacements for the institutions. But there are people on the Right who believe the institutions need to be completely torn down.

It is a good thing that people look at institutions hollowed out by the left-wing with radical skepticism, and look to build new institutions or restore those institutions by kicking the Left out of those institutions and actually regaining credibility.

However, if the substitute for this is an atomized society in which you go to TikTok for your information or X.com for information, you’re going to end up with some pretty bad information.

And this is why conspiratorialism has soared on every side of the political aisle. Conspiratorial thinking speculates that there is an unnamed group of people who you can’t put a finger on, but you know they exist behind closed doors. They must be doing something nefarious and terrible, and therefore, you are not in control of your own life, and you then get to be very angry at someone.

That is not good for society or good politically. It is bad for you as a human to engage in that sort of thinking, because it means that you are essentially saying that you are not in control of your own future, you’re not in control of your own life, and there’s no prospect that you will be, because the shadowy forces control everything.

The Right has its work cut out for it; not to become the Left, but to champion the very ideas that distinguish it from the Left: strengthening traditional institutions with traditional principles, relying on facts rather than narratives that spring from conspiratorial thinking, and treating every human being as an individual with their own thoughts and feelings — without lumping them all together as one monolithic group.