UN Secretary-General António Guterres has criticized as “unacceptable” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government rejecting a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. “This refusal, and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security,” Guterres told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Numerous foreign ministers had also travelled to New York for the debate on the situation in the Middle East. “A lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ca…