Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 23, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, accused Israel of not “believe in peace”. The 87-year-old Palestinian leader said Israel was undermining “a premeditated and deliberate two-state solution” and acted in “all impunity” in the occupied territories. A speech denounced by the Israelis.
“This unequivocally proves that Israel does not believe in peace. He wants to impose the status quo by force and aggression. So we no longer have an Israeli partner to talk to.”, did he declare. He claimed that Israel was conducting a settlement campaign in the Palestinian territories and leaving a “total freedom” his army to kill or use excessive force against the Palestinians. “It’s an apartheid regime”he said, demanding that Israel be held accountable for “his massacres” and accusing the international community of ” protect “ the Hebrew state. The Palestinian leader reiterated his call for Israel to be brought before the International Criminal Court.
“President Abbas uses the UN as a platform to incite hatred against Israel, while glorifying the terrorists he funds himselfreplied the permanent representative of Israel to the UN, Gilad Erdan. With a rant filled with lies and completely detached from reality, he once again proved his utter uselessness. »
The day before, on the podium of the General Assembly, the Israeli Prime Minister, Yaïr Lapid, had affirmed that“a large majority of Israelis supported this vision of a two-state solution and [qu’il était] one of them. We have only one condition: that a future Palestinian state be peaceful..
In his speech Wednesday at the UN, US President Joe Biden also renewed his support for the creation of a Palestinian state, but without announcing any particular initiative to relaunch negotiations. Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have stalled since 2014.