The creation of a Palestinian State is not “realistic” today, judges the Israeli Foreign Minister
The creation of a Palestinian State is not ” Today “ a project “realistic”Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Monday during a press conference in Jerusalem.
“In a word: no”responded when asked about the prospect of a relaunch of the so-called Abraham Accords, given the election of Donald Trump as US president, and about the possibility of extending normalization between Israel and several Arab countries to Saudi Arabia in return of the creation of a Palestinian State. “A Palestinian State (…) It will be a Hamas state. “I don’t think this position is realistic today and we have to be realistic.” added the head of diplomacy, who took office last week.
The Oslo Accords, which the Jewish State and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed in 1993, and the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, “not only (…) “They have not brought peace but, as we have seen, they have degraded our security.”continued the minister, who spoke to the press for the first time since taking office.
Two years after this withdrawal, Hamas took power in the enclave and “We do not want this to happen in Judea and Samaria”he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank. Gideon Saar, furthermore, judged ” important “ remember that, unlike the United Nations, Israel does not consider the West Bank “as occupied territories, but as disputed territories”.
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