ONLINE PETITION TO EXPEL ISRAEL ENVOY TO UK GATHERS 100,000 SIGNATURES

Mon 08 January 2024:

An online petition to expel the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, for her support for “destroying” Gaza has now gathered more than 100,000 signatures.

The Change.org petition, filed less than a month ago, says the role of political envoys is to foster good relations between countries, and they must face consequences when they achieve the opposite.

“This petition is not against Israel or its people, but against actions that could potentially harm our society’s fabric,” it reads.

Hotovely made several highly controversial comments about how much, if not all, of Gaza needs to be “razed to the ground” in order to destroy Hamas and its large network of underground tunnels.

“Do you have another solution to destroy the underground tunnel city? This is the place where the terrorists hide, where they have all their ammunitions,” she said last week after a UK radio programme host asked whether she supports “destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building in it?”

‘Absolutely no’ to two-state solution

Earlier in December 2023, Hotovely rejected the idea of an independent Palestinian State and the two-state solution, as a whole, in comments which further shed light on the Occupation’s intentions to avert Palestinian statehood.

In an interview with Sky News yesterday, Israeli ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, stated that “I think it’s about time for the world to realise the Oslo paradigm failed on October 7 and we need to build a new one”. When asked if that new paradigm would include an independent State for Palestinians, she replied “absolutely no”.

Calling the two-state solution “a formula that never worked, that created this radical people on the other side”, Hotovely claimed that “the reason the Oslo accords failed was because the Palestinians never wanted to have a State next to Israel, they want to have a State from the river to the sea”.

BREAKING: Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely rejects the idea of a two-state solution

"The answer is absolutely no", she says.https://t.co/cjkJJFipKp

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 13, 2023

Most recently, Israel’s Communications Minister, Shlomo Karhi, stated that “There will be no Palestinian State here. We will never allow another state to be established between the Jordan and the sea. We will never go back to Oslo.” He also claimed that a “Palestinian State would endanger them [Israelis]”.

Their comments are not only in direct opposition to the official stance of most Western nations – especially Britain and the United States – but also contradict President Joe Biden’s recent remarks that Netanyahu and his government “cannot say there’s no Palestinian State at all in the future. And that’s going to be the hard part”.

For many Palestinians, as well as critics of Israel and its crimes against humanity, Hotovely’s and other Israeli officials’ open rejection of the two-state solution only reveals the long-held policy of Tel Aviv and its occupation of Palestinian Territories: to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, while feigning its agreement to the idea to the international community.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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