A Palestinian teenager stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli man in the West Bank on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a a relentless outburst of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Reiterating the urgent need for significant steps to strengthen Palestinian institutions, security and economic prospects while addressing Israel’s security concerns, Mr. Ban stressed that changing Israeli policies is essential, particularly in Israeli-controlled Area C, comprising 61 per cent of West Bank territory and home to 300,000 Palestinians. Anyone breaching the regulation faces a fine.
“Planned Israeli settlements in E1 will effectively cut the West Bank in half and prevent the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders”, Ahmad Sob Labn told Anadolu Agency.
“Therefore, it has to be removed from its path if we seriously want to open doors for a meaningful process that would lead to the end of the occupation, the independence of our state and saving the two state solution”. The soldiers, police and Shin Bet operatives are also an inseparable part of the settlement enterprise. The European move, which Israel feels discriminates against Jewish manufacturers and sums to some boycott has been condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Palestine would be divided into Bantustans, today I would call them fenced in ghettos, which are guarded by the Israeli occupation regime.
Toner emphasised that the guidance “in no way supersedes prior rulings or regulations”, and “nor does it impose additional requirements with respect to merchandise imported from the West Bank, Gaza Strip or Israel”.
The official Israeli policy remains that there should be no pre-conditions for talks with the Palestinians.
The Palestinians hope France, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, might sponsor such a resolution, but it is unclear whether the French have the appetite for such a course. The possible financial collapse of the Palestinian government?
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday described Israel’s settlements as “provocative acts” that raised questions about its commitment to a two-state solution, almost 50 years after occupying lands the Palestinians seek for a state. “But they’re mistaken. We’ll never leave our land”. They make a mockery of those forced to swallow their pride to (barely) provide for their families, while at the same time filling the pockets of their employer-occupiers.
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“Ever greater isolation of the Israeli Government?” He is right. The most powerful global organization, which for two generations has tolerated the existence of a colonial regime and its development, lost its neutrality a long time ago, along with its moral authority.
