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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel ambassador to UK says ‘absolutely no’ to two-state solution, Palestine statehood</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Middle East Monitor - December 14, 2023<br></div>
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<p>Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has rejected the idea of an
independent Palestinian State and the two-state solution, as a whole,
in comments which further shed light on the Occupation’s intentions to
avert Palestinian statehood.</p>
<p>In an interview with <i>Sky News</i> yesterday, Israeli ambassador,
Tzipi Hotovely, stated that “I think it’s about time for the world to
realise the Oslo paradigm failed on October 7 and we need to build a new
one”. When asked if that new paradigm would include an independent
State for Palestinians, she replied “absolutely no”.</p>
<p>Calling the two-state solution “a formula that never worked, that
created this radical people on the other side”, Hotovely claimed that
“the reason the Oslo accords failed was because the Palestinians never
wanted to have a State next to Israel, they want to have a State from
the river to the sea”.</p>
<p>The ambassador’s comments come at a time when the two-state solution
has come under intense scrutiny in recent years, primarily due to the
fact that Israel has actively allowed the construction and
establishment of thousands of illegal settlements – and the immigration
of tens of thousands of illegal settlers – throughout the three decades
since the 1993 Oslo Accords, causing a major obstacle and impracticality
to the territorial integrity of a future Palestinian State in the West
Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.</p>
<p>The issue has only gained further attention amid the recent and
ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, with officials in the
Israeli government now openly stating their opposition to the idea of a
two-state solution. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for example, <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231128-netanyahu-only-i-can-block-a-palestinian-state/">told</a>
lawmakers in his party last month that only he can “prevent a
Palestinian State” after the war in Gaza, and Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231213-smotrich-bidens-call-for-two-state-solution-is-suicide/">called</a> the enablement of the two-state solution “suicide”.</p>
<p>Most recently, Israel’s Communications Minister, Shlomo Karhi, <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231214-israel-minister-there-will-be-no-return-to-oslo-no-palestinian-state/">stated</a>
that “There will be no Palestinian State here. We will never allow
another state to be established between the Jordan and the sea. We will
never go back to Oslo.” He also claimed that a “Palestinian State would
endanger them [Israelis]”.</p>
<p>Their comments are not only in direct opposition to the official
stance of most Western nations – especially Britain and the United
States – but also contradict President Joe Biden’s recent <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-12/biden-pushes-netanyahu-to-change-stance-on-palestinian-statehood">remarks</a>
that Netanyahu and his government “cannot say there’s no Palestinian
State at all in the future. And that’s going to be the hard part”.</p>
<p>For many Palestinians, as well as critics of Israel and its crimes
against humanity, Hotovely’s and other Israeli officials’ open rejection
of the two-state solution only reveals the long-held policy of Tel Aviv
and its occupation of Palestinian Territories: to prevent the
establishment of an independent Palestinian State, while feigning its
agreement to the idea to the international community.</p>
<p><strong>READ: <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230918-the-oslo-accords-are-the-war-israel-won-without-fighting/">The Oslo Accords are the war Israel won without fighting</a></strong></p>
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