Openly defying French President Emmanuel Macron and the UN, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Catt. Israel will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state in West Bank.
At the same time he spoke of a clear and unequivocal intention for ‘Building a Jewish State’ on the West Bank that Israel holds under the possession of since 1967 and the six -day war.
This statement comes the day following the approval by the Israeli government of a plan for the creation of 22 new Jewish settlements on the West Bank denounced by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterreswho called on Israel to “Stop all settlement activities”, which are ‘illegal and are an obstacle to peace’.
Today, Emmanuel Macron said that the “Creation of a Palestinian state” “is not just a moral duty, but a political requirement”.
During a visit to a military outpost of a Jewish settlement in the northern sector of the occupied Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Minister responded to the French president.
“It is a clear message to Macron and his friends: they will recognize a Palestinian state on paper, and we will build a Jewish Israeli state,” the Israeli defense minister said, according to a statement from his office. “The paper will be thrown into the trash of history and the state of Israel will prosper and flourish.”
Kats visited the Jewish settlement, which the Israeli government intends to upgrade to an autonomous municipality based on the plan it announced yesterday. Sa-Nur is a former settlement that was dissolved by Israel in 2005 as part of Israel’s unilateral retirement from the Gaza Strip, a decision by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
“Today we are returning here with the decision to re -establish the community,” the Israeli minister added.