Erekat:
Only Alternative to Two States is One Single
Democratic State
By WAFA
February
15, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- "WAFA"
-RAMALLAH,
- Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the
Palestine Liberation Organization, said
Wednesday that the only alternative to the two
state formula - one Palestinian and one Israeli
- is a single secular and democratic state.
Speaking
after a meeting with John Bercow, Speaker of the
House of Commons of the UK Parliament at his
office, Erekat said that the two-state solution
was an international formula to solve the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
“As we
have constantly stated, the two-state solution
is a Palestinian adoption of an international
formula,” he said. “In fact, it represents a
painful and historic Palestinian compromise of
recognizing Israel over 78% of historic
Palestine. Today, almost 6 million Palestinians
live under Israeli control in all of historic
Palestine, while almost 6 million Palestinians
live in exile.”
Erekat
stressed that “contrary to Netanyahu's plan of
one state and two systems, Apartheid, the only
alternative to two sovereign and democratic
states on the 1967 border is one single secular
and democratic state with equal rights for
everyone, Christians, Muslims, and Jews, on all
of historic Palestine.”
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The
meeting with Bercow discussed issue of mutual
interest.
“I urged
Mr. Bercow to work towards justice for the
Palestinian people, especially given the
historic responsibility that the UK bears 100
years after the issuance of the Balfour
Declaration.”
He said
that calls by British Prime Minister Theresa May
to celebrate the anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration “are not only unacceptable but
insulting to the Palestinian people.”
“We called
upon the United Kingdom to recognize the State
of Palestine on the 1967 border with East
Jerusalem as its capital, and to take concrete
measures in order to save the two-state
solution, including to ban all Israeli
settlement products,” concluded Erekat.
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