srael, United States and Qatar have agreed this Saturday to resume negotiations to reach a truce with Hamasstagnant since April, according to Israeli media.
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The talks will resume next week after agreeing in Paris on a new scheme negotiated by CIA director William Burns, Mossad chief David Barnea and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.
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Palestinian ambassador to the UN believes that Spain “opened a door that others will follow”
In an interview with EFE at the UN headquarters, Mansour, 77, emphasizes that Spain, along with Ireland and Norway, has exercised “a sovereign right,” and it is therefore a decision that “is the responsibility of Spain, its institutions and its people”, which is why he does not understand “Israel’s hysterical reaction”.
Mansour has been leading the Palestinian mission at the UN for 19 years and has become famous in recent months for giving emotional speeches in the General Assembly or the Security Council in which he has been on the verge of crying on the most difficult days. hard of war.
Since last October 7, when the war in Gaza began with the attack by Hamas, he has displayed tireless activity in the corridors of the UN and has managed, for example, to unite the Arab Group of ambassadors and make them appear together regularly before the means, thus overcoming their differences present in almost all other conflicts.
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Mansour believes that Israel has an “elitist and racist” attitude when it assumes the right to tell countries whether or not they should recognize Palestine, or when it describes that recognition as “hostile”, to which he replies: “Is Spain the enemy?” of Israel because it believes in peace and invests in it? Please, it’s crazy!” he says, emphasizing that Spain has “a long historical relationship with Israel” (it recognized the Jewish State in 1986) that no one doubts. .
And although Israel has dismissed this recognition of Palestine as insignificant, Mansour questions it: “Don’t they care? Don’t they care about the bilateral relationship, the military assistance, the economic relationship? The hysteria with which they have welcomed the decision (of recognition) is eloquent, otherwise why this fury? Why these measures against Spain, against Palestine?”, he says, in relation to Israel’s announcement to prohibit the Spanish Consulate from providing services in the West Bank.
For the ambassador, there is no doubt that the decision of recognition has paved the way for others to do so soon – he cites Belgium, Portugal, Luxembourg and Slovenia – and he says that this “door that they have opened” works in two senses: it puts It makes the decision of those already in favor easier and makes resistance among those who oppose it more difficult. He does not doubt that it is a decision with echoes beyond Europe, since it can encourage other countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan or Korea.
“The brave ones who started by opening that door will help them take the extra step in the right direction,” he says. The inexorable full membership in the UN Mansour also believes that the admission of Palestine as a full member of the UN – vetoed alone by the United States on April 18 – is a matter of time, and remembers that other countries subject to vetoes , like Italy itself before 1955, or the two Koreas, ended up accessing the UN through the front door. Palestine is now only an “observer state.”
“Why do we have to be at the mercy of what the occupier (Israel) says? That infringes our right to self-determination,” he explains, alluding to the reasoning that the United States – and others such as the United Kingdom or France – always repeats. that a Palestinian State and its entry into the UN is something that must be the result of a resolution negotiated with Israel.
The ambassador refrains from openly criticizing the United States for its unwavering support for Israel, but says that when President Joe Biden talks about the State solution he must specify it: “Are you going to ask for the settlements to stop? The land annexations in East Jerusalem? Are you going to reconsider the move of the Embassy? Tell me, what steps are you going to take?
Regarding whether he prefers a Democratic government or a return of Donald Trump – a president who multiplied even more the gestures towards Israel -, the ambassador says that he does not plan to make comments on national politics, but remembers one detail: that in the administration of Trump, after nine months of relative “honeymoon”, the US changed its position and “the relationship became very bad.
EFE AND AFP
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