Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested the creation of the state of Palestine in Saudi Arabia. The Arab League said that a Palestinian state can only be established “within the territories of Palestine” and that East Jerusalem should be its capital.
In an interview with Israeli television channel 14, on Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu suggested the creation of the state of Palestine in Saudi Arabia.
In ‘Play Tone’, after the presenter confused “Palestinian State” with “Saudi state,” Israel’s Prime Minister said this “It was an interesting idea, because Saudis can create a Palestinian state in their country, since there is a lot of territory there.”.
This comment has generated Netanyahu, in recent days, harsh criticism – even from Saudi Arabia herself.
This Sunday, the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Abulgueithe stated that the Israeli Prime Minister’s statements reflect “a total disconnection with reality.”
In a statement, the leader of the Pan-Arab organization “vehemently” denounced the plan of “Palestinian transfer to the Saudi Kingdom” and stated that “the logic on which it is based is unacceptable”.
In that regard, insisted that a Palestinian state can only be established within the territories of Palestine and that East Jerusalem should be its capitalrecalling that there should be no separation between the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
“Any other idea is just a nightmare or illusions that only exist in the minds of those who report them,” added Abulgueit.
Also this Sunday, the Ministry of Saudi Foreign Affairs greeted “the denunciation, condemnation and categorical rejection by Netanyahu’s brothers’ brothers on the displacement of the Palestinian people of their land.”
“The kingdom underlines its categorical rejection of such statementswhich aim to divert the attention of the systematic crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinian brothers in Gaza, including the genocide to which they are exposed, ”says a statement from the ministry.
Israel’s statements about the creation of a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia were also rejected by Egypt and Jordanwhose foreign ministries qualified them from “Aggressive”, “instigating” and “a flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.”
Also the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OCI), consisting of 57 states, qualified in a statement the proposal to move the inhabitants of Gaza as “Ethnic Cleaning” and considered the Israeli statements “a violation of the sovereignty and national security of Saudi Arabia.”
Egypt organizes urgent Arabic summit
Egypt will organize an “emergency Arab summit” on February 27 to discuss “the last serious developments” in the Palestinian issue with the US plan to control Gaza, the Egyptian government announced on Sunday.
The summit occurs at a time when Cairo gathered regional support against the Donald Trump plan to transfer inhabitants of Gaza For Egypt and Jordan, and put the Palestinian territory under the control of the United States.
The purpose of the visit is to “reinforce bilateral relations and the strategic partnership between Egypt and the United States” and “make“ consultations on the regional situation ”, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quoted by the French agency AFP.
Trump launched last week the idea that the US reconstructs the range of Gaza, devastated for 15 months of Israeli bombing, and making one of the territory one.
Trump’s proposal raised a choir of protests around the world, particularly from the Arab countries, which insisted on the need for a solution of two states, Israelite and Palestinian, to resolve the Israelo-Palestinian conflict.
Egyptian diplomacy said the summit was summoned at the request of the Palestinians after consultations “at the highest level with the Arab countries in recent days.”
