WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Zionist politician considered a leading candidate to succeed the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said world powers should stop trying to create a Palestinian state.
"Twenty-five years of failed diplomacy shows a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t realistic and a fresh approach is needed,” Likud party politician Gideon Sa’ar said in an interview near Tel Aviv.
The former education and interior minister has said he’ll run for prime minister after Netanyahu, who is facing a police investigation into alleged corruption, leaves office.
"The fact that people still say ‘two-state solution’ doesn’t make it a solution -- it’s a two-state slogan,” Sa’ar said. "It’s no longer rational to support a two-state solution. We must think about reality.”
"No one could guarantee that a Palestinian state wouldn’t become a haven for militants threatening Israel’s main population centers,” Sa’ar said.
On the other side, the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has called upon Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to withdraw from the Oslo Accords and put an immediate end to all its security cooperation with the Tel Aviv regime in protest at the Zionist regime’s parliament's vote to consolidate its occupation of al-Quds.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, in a statement released on Tuesday, urged Abbas to establish a framework for Palestinian political factions on the basis of anti-Israel resistance in order to restore the rights of the Palestinian nation and disrupt the Israeli regime’s equations.
He also stressed the need to "escalate the uprising in al-Quds, and rally regional and international support for justice and Palestinian cause in the face of U.S. and Israeli radical and racist policies.”
Barhoum went on to say that the Israeli parliament's al-Quds bill "is in continuation of a series of attacks on the holy city, and in line with targeting the Palestinian population there and falsifying history and realities.”
The senior Hamas official said the Zionist regime poses a threat not only to the Palestinian nation but also to the entire Middle East region in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of al-Quds as the regime’s capital, and the international community’s silence on the crimes and terrorist acts of the Tel Aviv regime.