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Ben-Gvir, Smotrich press Netanyahu to rule out a Palestinian state
Two far-right Israeli ministers have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explicitly reject the possibility of a Palestinian state.
In a message on X addressed to the Israeli premier, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Netanyahu should clarify his position.
“Formulate immediately an appropriate and decisive response that will make clear to the entire world: a Palestinian state will never arise on the lands of our homeland,” wrote Smotrich, who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared a similar message, saying his Jewish Power party would not be part of a government that allows a Palestinian state.
He instead called for “encouraging voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza as the “only real solution” for the war-ravaged enclave.
‘National security’: Ex-UN rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated in Canada
Montreal, Canada – A former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians says he was interrogated by Canadian authorities on “national security” grounds as he travelled here to attend a Gaza-related event.
Richard Falk, an international law expert from the United States, told Al Jazeera he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver.
“A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,'” Falk, 95, said in an interview from Ottawa, the Canadian capital. “It was my first experience of this sort – ever – in my life.”
Falk and Elver – both US citizens – travelled to Ottawa to take part in the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility when they were held for questioning.
Richard Falk served as the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory from 2008 to 2014
Canada is just as complicit as the UK, no surprise there as a former British colony, genociding the indiginous population.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/richard-falk-canada-gaza
Martin Shaw, a British sociologist and author of The New Age of Genocide, said the treatment of Falk and Elver should be seen as an “extraordinary development” for Canada, and not in a good way. For a nation that likes to think of itself as a “supporter of international justice,” said Shaw, “to arrest the veteran scholar and former UN rapporteur Richard Falk while he is attending a Gaza tribunal. Clearly, the international repression of the Palestinian cause knows no bounds.”
The event, according to the program notes on the website, was designed to “document the multiple ways that Canadian entities – including government bodies, corporations, universities, charities, media, and other cultural institutions–have enabled and continue to enable the settler colonization and genocide of Palestinians, and to articulate what justice and reparations would require.”
