Israeli deputy foreign minister says Palestinians do not live under Israeli occupation
Replying to Robinson's statement that the UN recognise the West Bank as occupied by the occupation state of 'Israel', Hotovely said 'Israel' could not "be an occupier in a land that the Jewish people belonged to for thousands of years."
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli deputy foreign minister denied that the Palestinian people are living under Israeli occupation, claiming that the West Bank is called “Judea and Samaria”.
During a ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which signalled British support for the creation of the occupation state of Israel, Tzipi Hotovely claimed the occupation state gives equal rights to both Palestinians and Israelis.
Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme replied stressing that Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank do not have equal rights and that much of the international community recognises the West Bank as being under occupation.
“I deny the idea of occupation. This is Judea and Samaria,” Ms Hotovely replied.
“Those are places where in the last 25 years the Israeli government was trying to give the Palestinians all chances to have their own ruling.”
She said “Palestinians refused every time to have their own self-determination” or recognise the state of ‘Israel’.
Replying to Robinson’s statement that the UN recognise the West Bank as occupied by the occupation state of ‘Israel’, Hotovely said ‘Israel’ could not “be an occupier in a land that the Jewish people belonged to for thousands of years.”
