God bless all Palestinians – Peter
The prospects for Palestinian statehood and a future for its people are “disappearing”, according to two former world leaders who are demanding the international community heap more pressure on Israel to change course.
Mary Robinson, who served as Ireland’s first female president from late 1990 to 1997, and Helen Clark, New Zealand’s prime minister from 1999 to 2008, made the warning after completing a tour of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the occupied West Bank this week.
The pair are members of “The Elders”, a group established by the late Nelson Mandela in 2007, of former politicians and Nobel laureates.
They identified the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and incitement to violence against the Palestinian population, particularly by the right-wing Netanyahu government’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, as key drivers for their concerns.
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