The creation of a Palestinian state is not ” Today “ a project “realistic”said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday during a press conference in Jerusalem.
“In a word: no”he replied, when asked about the prospect of a relaunch of the so-called Abraham Accords, given the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and about the possibility of extending normalization between Israel and several Arab countries to Saudi Arabia in exchange for the creation of a Palestinian state. “A Palestinian state (…) 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) concluded in 1993, and the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, “not only (…) have not brought peace but, as we have seen, have degraded our security”continued the minister, who spoke to the press for the first time since his inauguration.
Two years after this withdrawal, Hamas took power in the enclave and “We don’t want this to happen in Judea and Samaria”he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank. Gideon Saar, moreover, judged « important » to recall that, unlike the United Nations, Israel does not consider the West Bank “like occupied territories, but like disputed territories”.
