Israeli occupation of Palestine must end: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Roger Fowler, a peace activist based in Auckland, New Zealand, to discuss a recent treaty that the Vatican has signed with Palestine.
What follows is a rough transcription.
Press TV: Talk to us about the significance of the signing of this treaty between the Vatican and Palestine.
Fowler: Well, it was probably signed in good intent. It is good to see that the Palestinians are being acknowledged rather than being ignored by powers around the world.
However, comes with it the so-called recognition of the state of Palestine, and what it fails to recognize is that Israel has occupied Palestine, and with all its walls and miles of barbed wire and checkpoints and racist and random violence and bombings and never-ending expansion of illegal settlements, not to mention theft of resources and the thousands of political prisoners held in Israeli detention centers… the so-called state of Palestine in these circumstances would be a little more, unfortunately, than an endorsement of the current situation and the continuation… with the Palestinians besieged in what amounts to isolated Bantustans, cut off from each other and cut off from the outside world.
Principally, the occupation must end and that is going to involve a struggle for, I believe, one single secular democracy.
Israelis and Palestinians each are roughly about 50 percent of the population, and there is no really good reason why they can’t be living in one such state, side by side in a democracy just like other civilized countries around the world.
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