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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian leadership positions filled by Abbas loyalists

2022-02-08

[JPost] So "A new morning begins"..naaaahhhh
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are not part of the PLO, did not send representatives to the meeting, saying it would drive a deeper rift among Palestinians.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday scored a victory as the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) voted in favor of appointing some of his loyalists to key positions in the Palestinian leadership.

Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the PA General Authority of Civil Affairs, was chosen to replace the late Saeb Erekat, who died in 2020, as secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee.

Abbas serves as chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee, two bodies that are now dominated by his loyalists.

The appointment of Sheikh boosts his chances of becoming No. 2 in the Palestinian leadership and a potential successor to Abbas.

Mohammad Mustafa was elected to replace PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, who resigned in 2020 after accusing the Palestinian leadership of marginalizing the PLO and excluding it from decision-making.

Ramzi Rabah was elected to replace veteran PLO Executive Committee member Tayseer Khaled, who submitted his resignation.

The PCC elected Ramzi Khoury as chairman of the Palestinian National Fund, the PLO’s “finance ministry.” Khoury, a longtime confidant of Abbas, was also elected to be a member of the PLO Executive Committee.

The PCC also voted in favor of appointing another Abbas loyalist, Rouhi Fattouh, as speaker of the Palestinian National Council, the PLO’s legislative body and parliament in exile. Fattouh replaced Salim Zanoun, who retired after 30 years in the job.

The PCC decisions were announced at the end of a two-day meeting in Ramallah that was boycotted by several Palestinian factions and figures who had accused Abbas of “hijacking” the Palestinian decision-making bodies and refusing to share powers with others.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are not part of the PLO, did not send representatives to the meeting. The two groups had called on Palestinian delegates and factions to boycott the session, saying it would deepen divisions among the Palestinians and sabotage efforts to end the rivalry between Abbas’s Fatah and Hamas.

Palestinian political analysts said the decisions of the PCC would tighten Abbas’s control over the PLO and other major institutions and pave the way for his loyalists to play a significant role in the post-Abbas era.

“This is a big victory for President Abbas,” said one analyst. “It is also a major blow to his rivals, especially those within the PLO and Fatah.”

Other analysts denounced the PCC decisions as a “crime” against the Palestinians and said those elected do not represent the Palestinians.

In a speech before the PCC on Sunday night, Abbas accused Israel of “undermining the two-state solution” and said that “options remain open.”

“It is not possible to continue implementing agreements [with Israel] unilaterally, and our contacts with the Israeli side are not a substitute for a political solution based on international legitimacy,” he said.

The Palestinians will continue to work with the US administration to strengthen bilateral relations, Abbas said.

“We are still waiting for the implementation of its commitments to protect the two-state solution and the signed agreements,” he said, referring to Washington’s pledge to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem that was closed in 2018.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Longtime Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi resigns

2020-12-10

[IsraelTimes] One of the most well-known spokespeople for the Paleostinian cause in the Western press, Ashrawi calls for reform in Paleostine Liberation Organization in her resignation letter.

Senior Paleostine Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi

...age 74, the cultured, Christian Palestinian daughter of one of the founding members of the PLO took the polish and contacts accrued while acquiring a PhD in Medieval Lit. from U of Virginia — among other efforts she was a long-time girlfriend of television anchorman Peter Jennings — to advance the cause of Palestinian nationhood and soften the impact of various terror attacks on Israelis at home and abroad. Mrs. Ashwari was diagnosed with COVID-19 in October, which may have something to do with her apparently sudden decision...

announced on Wednesday that she had submitted her resignation from the pan-Paleostinian organization.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians denounce inclusion of settlements in US-Israel scientific pact

2020-10-31

[IsraelTimes] In move seen by some as precursor to future West Bank annexation, Washington removes geographic restrictions from three 1970s science cooperation agreements.

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
on Wednesday condemned the US-Israel agreement to extend scientific cooperation to areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, describing it as a first step toward American recognition of Israeli illusory sovereignty in the West Bank.

"This is a dangerous and unacceptable precedent, which we cannot stay silent," Abbas’s official spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement.

"We reject this American policy which attempts to help Israel consolidate its occupation of Paleostinian lands. None of these policies will give any legitimacy to anyone. The settlements will one day disappear," Abu Rudeineh added.

Israel and the US on Wednesday signed an agreement that removed all previous geographic restrictions from their scientific cooperation, a move that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "a victory over all the organizations and countries that boycott Judea and Samaria," using the Biblical term for the West Bank.

During a festive ceremony at Ariel University in the heart of the West Bank, Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman signed a protocol that amended three 1970s agreements that form the basis for bilateral scientific cooperation.

Those agreements had stipulated that cooperative projects "may not be conducted in geographical areas which came under the administration of the State of Israel after June 5, 1967, and may not relate to subjects primarily pertinent to such areas."

The Paleostinian Liberation Organization said in response to the move that "banning settlement products and services and taking action on companies operating in occupied Paleostine is an international community’s obligation to stop Israeli settlements."

The PLO added that "attempts by the Trump administration to normalize [settlemetnts], as clearly stated in their annexation plan (the so-called Peace to Prosperity plan), are an encouragement for Israel to perpetuate its control over the land and the people of Paleostine and deny them their inalienable right to self-determination."

Senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi said the move was "a clear recognition of Israel’s annexation of Paleostinian territory," and that it "upgrades the Trump administration’s involvement in Israeli war crimes to active and willful participation."

Under President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, the US has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli illusory sovereignty over the Golan. It has also reversed Washington’s longstanding position on West Bank settlements, arguing they are not necessarily violating international law.

"Plainly, this geographic restriction within these three agreements was an anachronism," Friedman said at Wednesday’s ceremony. "We are righting an old wrong, and we are strengthening yet again the unbreakable bond between our two countries."

The ambassador stressed that the US and Israel will continue to fund projects based on quality but will no longer refuse support for researchers because of their postal code. "We are depoliticizing a process that should never have been politicized in the first place," he said.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hadassah hospital consulting with US medics on COVID treatment for Erekat

2020-10-20

[Jpost] Earlier, Erekat said he was experiencing "difficult symptoms resulting from my lack of immunity as a result of lung transplantation."

Veteran PLO official Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
, who contracted the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
earlier this month, was intubated on Monday after his condition worsened, and he is now considered at death's door in Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem.

On Monday the hospital issued a statement reporting that Erekat was "ventilated on high concentration of oxygen and on nitric oxide gas and is in the prone position. He has received concentrated convalescent plasma with high levels of anti-Covid antibodies."

"We have consulted with specialists from Tel Aviv, New York and Washington," the front man said, adding: "Prognosis remains very guarded."

Erekat was transferred to Hadassah on Sunday at death's door.
Erekat, 65, underwent a lung transplant in the US in 2017 after suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that scars the lungs and damages their ability to circulate oxygen.

"Mr. Erekat had a quiet night but his condition deteriorated this morning, and is now critical," a statement from Hadassah said Monday morning. "Due to respiratory distress, he is in a coma and ventilated. Mr. Erekat's treatment presents a significant challenge as, as the recipient of a lung transplant, he is immunosuppressed and suffers a bacterial infection in addition to the corona."

According to the hospital, Erekat is in the intensive care unit for corona patients and required high-flow oxygen therapy (HFOT) and oxygen (Airbo). He was not ventilated and was deemed stable when he entered the hospital on Sunday, although his condition deteriorated on Monday.

"Mr. Erekat is receiving top-notch professional care like all serious corona patients at Hadassah and the staff will do everything to assist his recovery. At Hadassah, we treat every patient as if he were our only patient," said the hospital’s director, Prof. Zeev Rothstein.

Several members of the Paleostinian ruling Fatah faction in east Jerusalem arrived at the hospital to inquire about Erekat’s condition. Erekat is the most senior Paleostinian official to be admitted to an Israeli hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus.

"Due to the chronic health problems he faces in the respiratory system, Dr. Erekat’s condition now requires medical attention in a hospital," the PLO said in a statement.

Erekat, who previously served as chief Paleostinian negotiator with Israel, is currently secretary-general of the PLO. He is also a member of the Fatah Central Committee.

The decision to transfer Erekat to an Israeli hospital came after his condition deteriorated over the past 24 hours, Paleostinian sources told The Jerusalem Post.

The Paleostinian Authority made an urgent request to Israel to allow Erekat, who lives in Jericho, to be transferred to an Israeli hospital immediately, the sources said.

Erekat was in stable, pH balanced condition and fully conscious while being taken to the hospital in an Israeli ambulance, they said.

On October 9, Jordan’s King Abdullah instructed his government to provide Erekat with any medical care he requires.

Another senior PLO official, Hanan Ashrawi, was diagnosed with the coronavirus earlier this month.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians condemn Bennett’s announcement of thousands of new settlement homes

2020-05-08

[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinians are condemning an announcement by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett that he is issuing building permits for 7,000 new homes in the Efrat settlement near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

The ministry indicated the land would allow the creation of a new neighborhood called Givat Eitam.

The Paleostine Liberation Organization denounces the new "violation of international law.

"This is an outrageous exploitation of the COVID-19 global pandemic to advance the illegal settler project," senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi says in a statement.

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Home Front: Politix

Rashida Tlaib retweets unverified claim Israelis killed Palestinian boy

2020-01-26

[Jpost] The tweet claimed that the boy was kidnapped by "Israeli settlers, assaulted and thrown in a water well"

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

D-West Bank

retweeted a claim that "Israeli settlers" had "kidnapped and executed" a Paleostinian boy. In fact the boy was found by Israeli emergency services dead in a cistern on Saturday morning after going missing on Friday. Nevertheless, some Paleostinian social media accounts incited against Israel, with small festivities resulting in East Jerusalem.

A Twitter account called "Real Seif Bitar" tweeted that the boy had been kidnapped and executed and showed a video of the boy’s body being found by emergency services. The tweet claimed that the boy was kidnapped by "Israeli settlers, assaulted and thrown in a water well, was found this morning frozen to death in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem after Israeli forces assaulted search teams." Paleostinian politician Hanan Ashrawi re-tweeted the allegation and added "the heart just shatters, the pain is unbearable, no words." Congresswoman Tlaib then retweeted the Ashrawi tweet that included the allegations.

However Ashrawi apologized for her tweet. "My apologizes for re-tweeting something that’s not fully verified. It seems that the news of his being kidnapped is not certain." She also tweeted other clarifications and then appeared to delete the tweet. Tlaib’s retweet was also was thereafter deleted but she did not apologize for spreading the false information.

The tweet accusing Israelis of kidnapping and murder and which actually shows the boy’s body being taken from the cistern by medical personnel has now been viewed 125,000 times. It has led to an outpouring of incitement against Israel.

George Galloway
... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ...
, the UK politician, wrote "there are no words which can fully convey the evil of this story." Many noted that Tlaib had erred in re-tweeting the false story. Arsen Ostrovsky wrote "seriously Rashida Tlaib?...this was a tragic case of a child who went missing and fell into a pool of rainwater, have you no shame in reposting these lies?" Many compared it to a modern day blood libel.

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International-UN-NGOs

Defying Trump, UN renews mandate of Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA until 2023

2019-11-16

[IsraelTimes] Resolution passes 170-2, with only Israel and US opposing it; one of 8 measures concerning Israel passed by body, with no actions against any other country.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
voted Friday to extend the mandate of its controversial agency for Paleostinian refugees in a move opposed by Israel and the United States.

In a General Assembly vote, the UN’s Fourth Committee approved extending UNRWA’s mandate until 2023. The vote was 170-2, with only Israel and the US voting against.

Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Canada, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Naura and Vanuatu all abstained.

The vote was one of eight resolutions concerning Israel approved Friday by the Fourth Committee, which did not take up measures on any other states.

UNRWA was set up in the years after more than 700,000 Paleostinians were expelled or fled their lands during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel. It has repeatedly had its mandate extended since then.

Israel accuses the organization of perpetuating the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants, rather than the status only to the original refugees as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide.

The Trump administration has made similar criticism of UNRWA and in 2018 suspended and later cut all funding to the agency.

UNRWA disputes the criticism and says the services it provides would otherwise not be available to Paleostinians.

We view this vote as an unequivocal rejection of a malicious and cynical campaign led by the Trump administration and Israel to abolish UNRWA and revoke the inalienable rights of Paleostine refugees," Paleostinian Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi said in a statement.

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
praised the vote, according to the official Wafa news site.

The foreign minister of Jordan, which houses a large number of Paleostinian refugees, also hailed the passage of the resolution.

Among the eight resolutions passed Friday was one condemning Israel for its control over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, as well another approving a "special committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
of the Paleostinian people and other Arabs of the Occupied territories."

UN Watch, a pro-Israel monitor group, condemned the votes.

"The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal," UN Watch director Hillel Neuer said in a statement.

Neuer also criticized the resolutions on UNRWA for not mentioning Pierre Krahenbuhl, who resigned last week as the agency’s head over alleged misconduct.

Krahenbuhl is one of several senior UNRWA officials being investigated as part of a wide-ranging probe. An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the agency, which has also faced a financial crisis after US funding cuts.

The report said the allegations include senior management engaging in "sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives." Krahenbuhl himself was alleged to have been romantically involved with a colleague appointed in 2015 to a newly created role of senior adviser after an "extreme fast-track" process, the report said.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the reports on alleged mismanagement at UNRWA lent credence to its criticism of the agency and called for a full release of the probe’s findings.

A number of countries suspended their contributions pending the outcome of the probe into alleged mismanagement.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu Annexation Pledge a Blow to Palestinians

2019-09-12

[COURTHOUSENEWS] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to annex the heart of the West Bank if he wins re-election next week could inflame the Middle East and extinguish any remaining Paleostinian hope of establishing a separate state.

Arab leaders angrily condemned Netanyahu’s remarks Tuesday, and a U.N. front man warned the step would be "devastating" to the prospects for a two-state solution.

Netanyahu said he would extend Israeli illusory sovereignty over the Jordan Valley ‐ the breadbasket of any Paleostinian state ‐ shortly after forming a new government and would move later to annex other Jewish settlements.

Such action would swallow up most of the West Bank territory sought by the Paleostinians, leaving them with little more than isolated enclaves. Netanyahu’s announcement appeared to be aimed at shoring up support of hard-line nationalist voters.

World leaders denounced Netanyahu’s annexation promise.

Stephane Dujarric, a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
front man, said Tuesday that any Israeli move to impose its administration over the Paleostinian territory "would be devastating to the potential of reviving negotiations, regional peace and the very essence of a two-state solution."

The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
condemned Netanyahu’s remarks as "a serious development and an Israeli aggression" that, if carried out, amount to "an Israeli declaration for the end of the grinding of the peace processor."

Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said in a statement that annexation of Israel’s West Bank settlements would fan the flames of conflict around the region

Netanyahu made no mention of what he would do with the territory’s more than 2 million Paleostinian residents.

Palestinians say Netanyahu's Jordan Valley annexation bid 'destroys all chances of peace'

[ALARABY.CO.UK] A senior Paleostinian official said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to annex the Jordan Valley if re-elected destroyed all chances of Israeli-Paleostinian peace.

"He is not only destroying the two-state solution, he is destroying all chances of peace," bigwig Hanan Ashrawi told AFP.

"This is a total game changer."

Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
, the chief Paleostinian negotiator, said the annexation would be "manifestly illegal".

He called on the international community to "act now to prevent Netanyahu and his allies from burying any remaining prospects for peace".

Earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he would immediately annex the Jordan Valley, a strategically important part of the occupied West Bank, if he were re-elected on September 17.

He also reiterated his intention to annex Israeli settlements throughout the West Bank if re-elected, saying it would be done in coordination with US President Donald Trump

...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
but without giving a time frame.

The Jordan Valley accounts for around one-third of the West Bank and Israeli right-wing politicians have long viewed the area as a part of the territory they would never retreat from.

Israeli settlements are located in what is known as Area C of the West Bank, which accounts for some 60 percent of the territory, including the vast majority of the Jordan Valley.

Netanyahu said his annexation plans would not include Paleostinian cities, such as the Jordan Valley's Jericho.

Ashrawi said the move, which would leave the Paleostinian government with self-rule over a number of cities in the West Bank, was "worse than apartheid".

"He is trying to take the land without the people and saying you are free to leave," she added.

"In every (Israeli) election we pay the price, with our rights, with our lands."

A front man for Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, accused Netanyahu of seeking "right-wing votes by selling the illusion to his public that he can occupy Paleostinian land forever."

Separately, a senior Hamas official Bassem Naim predicted it could "lead to a kaboom".

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Home Front: WoT

Palestinian activists don’t understand why they can’t enter the US

2019-05-19

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

[IsraelTimes] Hanan Ashrawi is the most recent of at least 3 barred from the United States this year, though the Trump administration has not announced a policy change.

In December 1992, about nine months before the first Paleostinian-Israeli peace accords were signed on the White House lawn, Hanan Ashrawi met with president George H.W. Bush in the Oval Office.

Now, 26 years later, she can’t even enter the United States.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US denies visa to senior Palestinian official

2019-05-14

[Ay-Pee] A senior Palestinian official said the United States denied her application for a visa to travel to the U.S. on Monday in what appears to be the latest sign of escalating American political pressure on Palestinians.

Hanan Ashrawi, a top official in the Palestine Liberation Organization and outspoken activist for Palestinian rights, told The Associated Press that she believed she was rejected for political reasons.
And...because you're a caustic hate and lie-spewing ashtray
She said she had been invited to a series of speaking engagements at universities and think tanks in the U.S., and was also planning to visit relatives, including a daughter and grandchildren living there.

Educated in the U.S., Ashrawi, 72, said she has visited America many times and typically makes several visits a year. With her fluent English, she is a prominent Palestinian spokeswoman on TV and has met with top U.S. officials over the past three decades.
She and Saeb Erekat go back to the Good ol' Days of Yassir and the Dread Red Binder™
Asked whether her visa denial was political, she said: "Of course," calling it "pettiness and vindictiveness."

A State Department official declined to provide details about Ashrawi's case, citing confidentiality requirements, but said the U.S. does not refuse visas based solely on people's political views or statements.

The Palestinian Authority severed ties with the Trump administration after it recognized contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and moved the embassy there. The U.S. responded with a series of punitive measures that have increasingly alienated Palestinians, from shuttering the U.S. consulate overseeing relations with Palestinians to slashing humanitarian aid to the West Bank and Gaza.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel plans to close UNRWA schools in occupied East Jerusalem

2019-01-21

[Al Jazeera] The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
refugee agency for Paleostinians said Israeli authorities did not inform the group of a plan regarding shutting down UNRWA-run schools in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli media reported that the state's National Security Council will revoke permits allowing UNRWA schools to operate starting next school year. The schools will be replaced by schools run by the Jerusalem municipality, supported by Israel's education ministry.

"UNRWA's existence in Jerusalem is not a gift from Israel," Sami Meshasha, the spokesperson for the agency said in a press statement on Sunday.

"There are bilateral agreements binding on Israel to respect the agency's installations, jurisdiction and immunity in Jerusalem," he said.

"In addition, Israel is a party to the 1946 Refugee Convention, and such attempts are in violation of this Convention."

UNRWA runs seven schools in two refugee camps in occupied East Jerusalem, serving a total of 3,000 students.

The Israeli plan is the latest blow to the agency, after the United States's decision last year to halt its funding.

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation executive committee, said the Israeli decision is "a direct insult to the international community and disregard for its laws and decisions and institutions".

The Times of Israel has the Israeli perspective here.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PLO's Ashrawi condemns Israel's approval of hundreds of new illegal settlement units

2018-12-29

[Middle East Monitor] Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned the Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to approve for the establishment of 1,451 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank and to advance plans for the construction of 837 additional units, Maan News Agency reports.

Ashrawi said, in a statement released on Thursday, that "Today’s announcement once again proves that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing and racist coalition government are pursuing systematic policies of settler colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing to appease the violent and extremist settler population and to win votes ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections in April."

"The deafening silence from the international community and the current US administration’s unyielding support of the military occupation have enabled the Israeli government to expand its illegal settlement enterprise which constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a direct violation of international law and conventions, including UNSC resolution 2334."

She added that "The enormity and severity of the situation and Israel’s deliberate efforts to displace Palestine and replace it with "Greater Israel" should send a strong message to governments worldwide that they need to intervene immediately and to undertake concrete measures to hold Israel accountable with serious punitive measures and sanctions."

Ashrawi also appealed to UN Secretary-General Ant nio Guterres to "ensure compliance with Security Council resolutions, including UNSC resolution 2334, and to make certain that Israel complies with them before the chances for a just peace and stability in the region and beyond are destroyed."

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