United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks at a conference on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians at UN headquarters on July 28, 2025 in New York City. The United States dismissed a French-Saudi-sponsored conference at the United Nations on promoting a two-state solution to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis as a "stunt." The US State Department labeled the three-day event "unproductive and ill-timed," as well as a "publicity stunt" that would make finding peace harder. Ever since the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, the United Nations has been inextricably linked to the fate of Palestinians, with the organization meeting this week hoping to revive the two-state solution. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)