The international community must achieve the creation of a Palestinian state, even by “imposing” it on Israel if necessary, the European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrell, said on Friday.
Borrell said that in the absence of a Palestinian state, “the spiral of hatred will continue to turn generation after generation.”
The EU’s foreign affairs chief expressed this view in a speech at the University of Valladolid in Spain, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday publicly rejected US calls for steps to create a Palestinian state after the end of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking about the two-state solution, which the US is also calling for, Netanyahu said that “the prime minister of Israel must be able to say no when necessary, even to our best friends.”
Borrell stressed that Israel and the Palestinians are no longer capable of reaching a compromise because “the parties involved are too angry with each other to come to an agreement on their own.”
He called on “the Arab world, Europe, the United States and the entire United Nations” to recognize the creation of a Palestinian state, even in the face of Israeli opposition.
Borrell also accused Israel of funding the creation of Hamas to weaken the more moderate rule of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied the accusation leveled at him by some of his critics.
Žuzeps Borels. Foto: EPA/JOHANNA GERON / POOL / Scanpix
2024-01-20 07:41:01
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