Friday, February 23, 2024

Israeli minister rejects existence of Palestinian people

from Daily Sabah

Israel's settlement and national missions rejected the existence of the Palestinian people, who have been living in Palestine for millennia.

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” Minister Orit Strook said in a video on her X account of her speech during a Knesset session on Thursday.

"There will never be a Palestinian state in the land of Israel,” she said. "Every cultured person in the world knows that this land is ours, for the Israeli people and only for us.”

The Israeli minister, who lives in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, claimed that a Palestinian state would be an "existential threat” to Israel and the "peace and order of the whole world."

"The large majority of the people of Israel oppose the establishment of the Palestinian state,” said the far-right minister, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism Party.

On Wednesday, Israel's parliament unanimously voted in support of a government decision to reject unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state...

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