Al Maliki stresses that Biden “is not that different” from Trump and charges against the normalization of relations with Israel
27 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riad al Maliki, has warned this Thursday that “every day that passes can lead to a genocide” of the Palestinian population due to the policies applied by the Israeli government, which he has described as “the most radical since the declaration of the State of Israel”.
“Every day that passes is a day that can lead to a genocide, a massacre, a massacre,” Al Maliki said in an interview with Europa Press, in which he stressed that “all Israeli governments have been radical , but this is the most radical of all because it comes with a very clear political platform to deny the existence of the Palestinian people, the right of the Palestinian people to a State and to drive the Palestinians out of all Palestinian territory.”
Thus, he has denounced that “within the current coalition — headed by Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister and made up of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties — there are ministers who were convicted of terrorist acts,” in apparent reference to the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, sentenced in 2007 for inciting racism and supporting a terrorist organization in relation to his ties to the extremist Jewish group Kach.
Al Maliki has stated that “the government responsibilities of ministers like Ben Gvir and — Finance Minister Bezalel — Smotrich are very clear.” “They have chosen to be ministers in charge of affairs related to the daily life of the Palestinians, not only in the occupied territory, but within the State of Israel,” he explained.
“Now they are completing their terror program in a more official way against the Palestinian people,” he said. “They come with that goal: how can they kill more Palestinians, how can they destroy more Palestinian houses, how can they confiscate more Palestinian land, how can they build more illegal Israeli settlement units inside Palestinian land, how can they expel Palestinians,” he said. warned.
For this reason, he stressed that “the challenge is clear and the risk is immense”, before outlining the need for the United Nations to offer international protection to the Palestinian people under Israeli military occupation”. “For us it is a very important issue”, he has asserted, before stressing that “the Palestinians have been under Israeli military occupation for 56 years”. “It is an occupation that deprives the Palestinians of all their basic rights,” he stated, while stressing that the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis is a relationship “between a country under occupation and an occupying country.
Likewise, it has argued that this relationship “is influenced and directed by that relationship of oppressor and oppressed.” “Israel always makes us remember that this is the reality, a reality is as ugly as the whole world has seen on different occasions,” he lamented, before adding that “it is only a relationship between the Israeli soldiers who control the territory Palestinian and the Palestinians resisting that occupation”.
BIDEN, “NOT SO DIFFERENT” FROM TRUMP
In another order of things, he has charged against the US president, Joe Biden, of whom he has said that “he is not so different” from his predecessor, Donald Trump, in relation to his position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Biden, when he was a candidate for the Presidency, spoke very clearly that he was going to completely change all the decisions made by Trump,” said Al Maliki, who stressed that, after winning the elections, he called the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, to advance a change in these policies.
Thus, he has revealed that “he told him that he was completely different from Trump, that he was going to cancel all the decisions made by him, to reopen the American Consulate in East Jerusalem, to develop relations, to reopen the office of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO) closed in Washington, to renew economic aid and all that”. “We are entering the third year of the Biden Administration and no decision mentioned by Biden has been applied,” he lamented, before noting that “it seems that Biden does not have the courage, the strength or the intention to do all that.”
Al Maliki has acknowledged that Washington, however, “has renewed financial support for the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), has supported Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem with a little money and is helping a little to the training of the Palestinian Police”. “Outside of that, nothing,” he has indicated. “There is no economic aid, there is no reopening of the office in Washington, there is no reopening of the consulate in East Jerusalem, there is no cancellation of the recognition of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the State of Israel or the transfer of the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem”, he has enumerated.
For this reason, he has argued that Biden “prefers to maintain the ‘status quo’ created by Trump.” “He is not so different from Trump in that regard, he continues to support the normalization process between Israel and Arab countries and exerts tremendous country to Arab and Islamic countries to normalize relations with Israel,” he said.
He has also noted that the visits to the West Bank by US officials, including Biden, “did not lead to any positive action.” “There is contact, there is activity, but there are no results,” he reiterated, before warning that “both the United States and Israel are not going to stop making the effort to add more countries to the so-called ‘Abraham Agreements'”.
However, he has argued that “the current conditions in the area, the type of government in Israel, the attitude of that government regarding the basic rights of the Palestinians and what has been seen lately in terms of Israeli violence against the Palestinian people, does not attract any other country” to this normalization, which seeks “to overcome the fact that the Palestinian problem is the common problem among all Arabs, to demonstrate that the Arabs can normalize relations with Israel without solving the Palestinian problem”.
CHANGES TOWARDS A MULTIPOLAR WORLD
In another order of things, he has pointed to the existence of “very radical changes” at the international level as a result of “the crisis in Ukraine”, which, in his opinion, “has created a totally different situation”. “Now we are talking about a multipolar system. China and Russia are playing a very important role,” she said.
“The BRICS –Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa– are playing a very important role, everyone is talking about doing business without using the dollar as the official currency, which is going to greatly weaken the United States economy (…) which will also weaken the political importance of the United States at the international level,” he defended.
Thus, he has said that this situation led Saudi Arabia to “accept the intervention” of China in view of the agreement signed in March to restore its relations with Iran, a country that “is being attacked by both Israel and the United States”.
“Some countries like Saudi Arabia are freeing themselves from the political and military influence of the United States and are adopting an independent path to regroup in different formats to protect their interests,” Al Maliki pointed out, adding that “the process we have seen with Saudi Arabia is an example that will be repeated by many other countries.”
“We are seeing a revolution and the one who is going to lose is the United States. There are other countries that move around the United States, like Israel, who are also going to lose,” he explained. For this reason, she has asked European countries for “a European policy independent of the United States” and to adopt a turn towards “more European politics, more than Euro-Atlantic politics.”
