THE occupation authority of Israel has set up a plan for annexation of Palestinian lands which are part of the West Bank in July, despite strong rejection of the Palestinians and vast majority of the international community.
The Israeli plan is to annex 132 settlements illegally built undermining international law, UN decisions, Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, and agreements made with the Palestinians as part of the peace on the basis of two-state solution.
The League of Arab States warned that the Israeli annexation of any parts of the occupied Palestinian territories would represent a new brutal aggression against the Palestinian people and their sovereignty over their lands. A similar warning was also issued by EU members, and ignorance to these warnings may result in possible European sanctions on Israel.
The State of Qatar has repeatedly affirmed its compliance with the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, as a strategic option that grants settlement of the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian State on the borders of June 4, 1967. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani also reiterated the position of the State of Qatar that rejects the Israeli annexation plan, warning that it would end all efforts for establishing sustainable peace between the two parties and will destabilize the region.
“The annexation of these territories will bury any possibility of settling the conflict in the future.”
For her part, H E Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, stressed recently that the Palestinian issue lies at the core of the Security Council’s mandate to maintain international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations, and it is necessary to implement the numerous Council resolutions related to the Palestinian issue. As most of Arab and Muslim officials have said the Israeli move would be hostile against the Arab and Islamic nations and will end all endeavours to find solutions to the conflict and undermine the chances of establishing peace in the region for decades to come.
It is also a blatant aggression on the international law and United Nations resolutions related to the decades-aged conflict. Therefore the international community should stand united against the intended Israeli aggression plan. Relying on the good intentions of Netanyahu not to go ahead with his annexation plan will be another disaster that would be a threat to the fragile peace of the region and total erosion of the national aspiration of the Palestinian people.
