The Arab States and Saudi Arabia and Qatar rejected the suggestion of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu that the Palestinian state should be created in the territory of Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected any proposals for the displacement of Palestinians, specifying these words “an extremist mentality of the occupier”.
On Thursday, Netanyahu gave an interview with Israeli television channel 14. The leader took over and asked about the “Saudi state”, clearly referring to the Palestinian state.
The prime minister quickly corrected him, but he said that “the Sauds can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia, they have a lot of land there.”
Saudi Arabia with “extremist mentality of the occupier”
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué issued on Sunday firmly rejected any proposals for resettlement of Palestinians, calling them “the” extremist mentality of the occupier “. The statement did not refer directly to the words of Netanyahu, but thanked the “brotherly states” for criticizing the statement of the Israeli prime minister.
Earlier it was condemned, among others, by the authorities Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian autonomy. Diplomacy Runny nose She commented on the words of Netanyahu as “provocative” in the announcement announced on Sunday.
Secretary General of the Arab States Ahmed Abu El-Ghejt said that the statements of the Israeli prime minister are “completely detached from reality” and cannot be accepted.
One of the Saudi dignitaries Jusef Bin Trad Al-Saadun answered on Friday to the words of Netanyahu a suggestion to ask the president USA Donald Trump For “sending Israelis to Alaska, and then transfer them to Greenland, after annexation,” wrote Middle East Eye.
The issue of an independent Palestinian state
Discussions around the perspectives of the creation of Independent Palestine broke out again after Trump's Tuesday's speeches, which Netanyahu adopted that day in the White House.
The American president strives to normalize relations between Israel And Saudi Arabi, which, like most Arab countries, does not recognize the Jewish state. The agreement would involve the conclusion of a security agreement between Riyjad and Washington and the intensification of economic relations.
Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia He does not demand that the condition of such an agreement was to create an independent Palestine. The authorities in Riyadh immediately denied and reminded the presented position that they would not agree to the normalization of relations with Israel without the creation of Palestine.
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Criticism after the words of Donald Trump
With universal criticism from the Arab states and not only Trump's statement was also found that the US will take control of the Gaza Zone, and Palestinians living there will be displaced to other countries. The American president also did not clearly answer the question whether he supports the creation of an independent Palestine, which was his position in the first term.
Palestinians have long been seeking to create an independent state in the lands now occupied by Israel. The creation of Palestine is part of the so -called two -state solutions that would bring peace in the Middle East. This idea is rejected by the current government of Israel. He supports it, among others European Union And many Arab countries, for many years, she was also supported by US diplomacy.
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