Thread by @NimerSultany

Israel's reaction to the announcement by Norway, Spain, and Ireland, that they formally recognise the State of Palestine, shows again that Israel seeks annexation and permanent occupation over Palestine, as the lawyers for Palestine said in the ICJ on 19 February:

The permanent character of the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinian right to self-determination, to be free from the yoke of Israeli colonialism, is evident in what Israel has said and did.

This is clear in statements by officials regarding Israeli sovereignty over Palestine

These Israeli statements reject the two state solution and erase the "green line"

This is also clear in the annexation of East Jerusalem and the intent to permanently annex it.

This is also clear regarding the annexation of the West Bank

This is clear in the government's official documents: exclusive right for the Jewish People over the "Land of Israel", including the Golan!

As the UN Rapporteur Michael Lynk said in 2022: "Israel has progressively engaged in the de jure and de facto annexation of occupied territory" in defiance of international law for decades. un.org/unispal/docume…

All these facts preceded October, and in fact there was acceleration in 2023 of the denial of Palestinian freedom and the entrenchment of the occupation and apartheid

This acceleration included the unleashing of state-sponsored settler violence in the West Bank, before October.

After October, Netanyahu reiterated his long-standing opposition to a Palestinian state, a position that Gantz shares, and have also recently repeated.

it is thus clear that this is not about Hamas or Gaza: that Israel has sought to negate the Palestinian people's right to self determination.

Israel's subjective determination of "Security" cannot trump or condition the Palestinian right to self-determination.

Israel cannot be given a veto power over Palestinian freedom

The illegality of the occupation and the long-standing denial of Palestinian freedom requires an immediate end to the occupation and sanctions over and boycott of Israel.

Addendum: for Gantz support for annexation see

https://x.com/NimerSultany/status/1771933570799473135

For Gantz rejection of Palestinian statehood see:

https://x.com/NimerSultany/status/1771933581855629673

For Gantz even more recent rejection of statehood, see:

https://x.com/NimerSultany/status/1792133205006393376