After Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia formally recognize the Palestinian state on Sunday, 21, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that “there will be no Palestinian state.” He also threatened: “The answer to the last attempt to impose us a terrorist state on the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States. Wait.”
France and other countries should also recognize the Palestinian state on Monday, 12, in parallel to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Netanyahu goes to the General Assembly. Brazil officially recognizes the state of Palestine since 2010.
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The new wave of recognition of the Palestinian state, which now includes G7 countries, a group that brings together the richest Western nations and Japan, occurs at the wake of almost two years of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 65,000 dead, and the moment the Israeli army invades the city of Gaza by land, intensifying the offensive.
At the same time, Israel is increasingly strangled the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, expanding settlements in the region, occupying militarily and repressing the local population, increasingly distant the solution of two states, Israel and Palestine, much defended by the international community and, until recently, also by the United States. Under the government of Donald Trump, however, US alignment to Israel has become even stronger, so much so that the American has already proposed the expulsion of Gaza’s population to transform the region into a tourist riviera, an idea led by Netanyahu.
“I have a clear message for those leaders who are recognizing a Palestinian state after the horrible massacre of October 7: you are rewarding terror with a huge prize,” Netanyahu said in the statement, referring to the attack of the terrorist group Hamas to Israel on October 7, 2023 who left over 1,200 dead and 251 hostages.
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“And I have another message for you: this will not happen. There will be no Palestinian state west of the Jordan River,” the prime minister said, referring to the West Bank. “For years, I have prevented the creation of this terrorist state against tremendous, both internal and external pressure,” he added. Netanyahu went further and self-congratulated: “We did it with determination and a cunning statesman’s ability.”
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He also celebrated the expansion of the occupation of the West Bank and promised to continue the expansion, although the settlements were considered illegal by the United Nations and the international community in general. “In addition, we double the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, and we will continue on this path,” he said, referring to the biblical names of the West Bank, a speech aligned with the most religious and conservative movements of Israeli politics, who support the Prime Minister.
