“Nothing is left for Palestine and that is what Israel wants - they want us to leave,” - Diana Buttu, Palestinian human rights lawyer
, the latest in a string of policy shifts under the Trump administration.
Buttu was not surprised by the recent US move, seeing it as the ultimate implementation of longstanding pro-Israeli Washington policies. The timing of the US recognition of settlements is not coincidental. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is currently facing multiple corruption investigations and did not manage to secure a majority in the April or the rerun September elections. As a result, he could not form a government and needs a boost from his American ally. to prosecute Netanyahu.“The US is doing it now in order to fulfill Netanyahu checklist of desires,” Buttu observed.
“The truth is that despite decades and decades of violent Israeli actions, the vast majority of Palestinians are not leaving and are not seeking asylum and are not looking for alternative places. They are staying here,” said Antony Loewenstein, a Jerusalem-based independent journalist and author. Loewenstein said Israelis have a “delusion” that some kind of economic peace with Palestinians can bring ultimate peace.
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