PA officials say that the Palestinians will unilaterally declare independent statehood over the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a last-ditch effort if the Israelis move forward with a planned annexation of the West Bank.
The Netanyahu government intends to annex the West Bank as part of President Trump’s peace plan. The plan offered some minor concessions to the Palestinians in return, though since the Palestinians rejected the US plan, the Trump Administration has encouraged Israel to annex and won’t give the Palestinians anything.
The PA now says they’ve been pushing counter-proposals, sent to the US and to the Mideast Quartet. This would create a sovereign but demilitarized Palestinian state as part of the deal. There is no word on a reaction, but Israel has in generally opposed Palestinian statehood on any terms, and the US has generally backed whatever Israel prefers.
A demilitarized state neighboring Israel would be suboptimal for the Palestinians, given how large the Israeli military is, and how often they invade Palestinian areas. Officials, however, may believe this is better than nothing, and certainly better than just letting Israel annex all the land, deny the Palestinians citizenship, and relegate them to a permanently occupied status.
Movement “Palestinian Lives Matter” will come by itself. No doubt.Netinyahu, Trump and others will be washed away
Nah, they’d rather fight among themselves.
You will not have stooges within them for ever
… Well, that declaration comes a little late, but whatever.
It is tragic to see children born into captivity and repression. It certainly highlights the uselessness of UN resolutions today.
Why not? Ben Gurion in complete defiance of the United Nation Resolution 188 did exactly the same on 15 May 1948 by unilaterally proclaiming the State of Israel.
The PA is collectively full of corrupt spineless cowards. They have been bought off as planned with largess from the U.S. Treasury, as israel commands. A demilitarized “state”, are you kidding me?
That would be stupid. The main point with the concept of a modern state is defense of territory.
What they should “threaten” should be that they will finally declare Oslo and the entire notion of two-state is over. No more Palestine or Israel … just a binational state for ALL the people to live in with equal rights in all of historic Palestine.
It eventually is likely to end that way for all of the West bank and Gaza too If the people that live there are allowed to vote .
I think so too. they will have to find a way to make it work that preserves the sense of security for the folks there, given the history. But it’s certainly more doable than the two-state nonsense.
On have to consider Palestine is not a state it has never been a State since Christ’s time over 2000- years ago .
It’s a state recognized by the UN and by the majority of UN member states.
The Palestinians in Gaza have no rights. There’s no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom of assembly, no freedom of religion & no vote. There are no Israelis or Jews in Gaza (Jews lived in Gaza for centuries but were ethnically cleansed in 1929.) Why should anyone believe that if there is a single state which will soon have a Palestinian majority that they will give Jews any rights when they don’t even give their fellow Palestinians any rights?
Gaza is a prison colony right now. Prisons are not big on “rights” typically.
They have declared statehood, and are recognized by much of the world, a majority of all states.
Their problem is that the US and Western Europe do not recognize them.
Repeating themselves does not solve anything.
The Apartheid state of Israel`s brutal occupation, theft, oppression, ethnic cleansing, genocide of the Palestinian people…..with the blessing and funding of the US, is no different than the Western/EU countries brutal colonisation, genocide, enslavement of the Americas/Canada, Africa, Australia, the Indies, the middle east and Asia.
That`s why there is no condemnation and concrete actions from the Western/EU countries towards Israel`s brutal occupation.
The Apartheid state of Israel knows this and goes all the way.
update:
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where he is going to express the European Union’s “concern” over the Tel Aviv regime’s controversial plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank.
Only Israel is not a brutal oppressive apartheid state and neither is The USA on their treatment and acceptance of American Indians .You must admit we are just one big happy family all working together . American Indians in America can do anything they want to . Even could be elected to any office in the land . And the same could be said of Arabs living in Israel .
Indeed. Have you ever been to Tuba City?
How very condescending of you, break into my house and offer me a cup of tea.
When Zionists moved to Palestine, there was a dramatic increase in the native population.
When European colonists came to America, there was a dramatic decrease in the Native population..
If you dig in Palestine, you will find ancient Jewish synagogues, ancient Jewish ritual baths & ancient Jewish coins.
If you dig in America, you will NOT find ancient Christian churches and ancient coins.
Jews have lived in Palestine for thousands of years.
Caucasians have not lived in America for thousands of years.
Palestinians oppressed Jews for centuries.
Native Americans did not oppress Europeans for centuries.
How did the people that that live there vote on restoring 30 % of the west bank to be part of Israel ? Oh I know the unelected self declared Palestine leaders were against the idea . But if they live there ? they could have voted too .
Israel is not annexing anything only restoring east Jerusalem to be part of Jerusalem again . Like it was before 1948 ..Israel is restoring 30 % of Judea and Samara to be part of Israel again . Just exactly like Russia allowed Crimea to be restored as part of Russia again . The people that lived there were happy to have their citizenship restored with their friends .