Thursday, January 20, 2022

Be prepared to bury the two-state solution, Palestinian FM warns

Prepare to eulogize the two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warned Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Malki on Wednesday as he called on the international community to force Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines.

"There is urgency because this conflict has a solution that may still be available today and that will no longer be viable tomorrow," Malki told the United Nations Security Council during its monthly meeting on the conflict. 
"The two-state solution … does not need you by its bedside to share comforting words. It needs you to save it," he said. "Absent this sense of urgency, prepare yourself to attend the funeral of this solution with all the consequences of such a death for the lives of millions of people, Palestinians and others." READ MORE