Israel benefiting from war, occupation: Writer
A new survey shows 65 percent of Palestinians have lost their faith in the so-called two-state solution to the conflict between them and the Israeli regime. The Palestinian people prefer to create an independent state covering the West Bank, East Jerusalem al-Quds and the besieged Gaza Strip and have repeatedly called for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories.
Jafar Ramini, writer and political commentator from Perth, told Press TV’s Top 5 that the Israeli regime was pursuing a plan, which had no place for peace but it was for occupation and war.
“There have been so many overtures from the Arab and from the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and from Fatah and from other Arab countries to make peace with Israel [but] they have rejected it, [because] they do not profit from peace; they profit from war and occupation,” Ramini said on Wednesday.
He added that since the United States shows all-out support for the Israeli regime, the Israeli regime insists on going ahead with the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The scholar noted that at the present time, the Palestinian Authority opposes armed resistance against the occupying regime, therefore, “why would Israel entertain any peace?”
He further said, “Palestine is the first episode of the Zionist plan for the Middle East,” and “the Oded Yinon Plan for the Middle East is clear and we see the results now in Palestine, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen and in Libya.”
“The Israelis have a plan called the Greater Israel Plan. They will not rest until it is fulfilled,” he stated.
According to the analyst, “The two-state solution is just a joke,” and it is “a two-state delusion,” because “the Israelis do not want [Palestinians] to have any state of any shape or size.”
“The Palestinian people are fed up with ... the so-called futile negotiations that are going in vicious circle with no results,” he stated.
The Israeli regime has refused to heed international calls to stop its illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands; an issue, which led to the collapse of the last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks in August 2014.
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