GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The proposal by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Dec. 30, 2014, to the UN Security Council has raised many questions about whether the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are ready for a peace agreement and a new round of negotiations. Fabius is set to submit a draft resolution to the Security Council before September, in an effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establish a Palestinian state.

According to international and local newspapers, the draft resolution proposes “setting a maximum deadline of 18 months to reach, through negotiations, a just, lasting and comprehensive solution.” The proposal asserts that “if no agreement is reached at the end of this period, France will announce that it is officially recognizing the State of Palestine.”

The draft resolution calls for the implementation of the “two states for two peoples principle” and the establishment of a Palestinian state “based on the borders of June 1967, with land swaps between the two sides.” But talking about any resolution that is applied on the ground is preceded by a fundamental question about how ready Gaza is about any future peace project, having fought three harsh wars during which faith in resisting has become entrenched.

In this context, a 24-year-old activist told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “Israel wages wars on Gaza under the pretext that it is fighting what it calls terrorism. But frankly, [Israel] has spawned terrorism due to its violent wars that killed thousands of civilians. There is a whole generation in Gaza that never knew a culture of peace. All it saw was war and killing. How can it accept a peace deal with the enemy?”