Palestina Kecam Perubahan Kebijakan AS pada Permukiman Israel
BINTANGNEWS.com –
Media Presstv.com berbahasa Inggris
melaporkan,” Para pejabat Palestina mengecam pemerintahan Presiden AS Donald
Trump karena melanggar kebijakan Amerika selama beberapa dekade terhadap
permukiman Israel yang dibangun di atas tanah Palestina yang diduduki, satu
lagi menggambarkannya sebagai pukulan terhadap hukum internasional.
Keputusan itu yang terbaru dalam rangkaian
langkah pro-Israel oleh pemerintahan Trump membuat marah para pejabat Palestina
dari berbagai faksi politik baik di Ramallah dan Jalur Gaza yang dikepung
Israel.
Perdana Menteri Palestina Mohammad
Shtayyeh mengutuk pengumuman Pompeo sebagai upaya untuk mendukung Perdana
Menteri Israel Benjamin Netanyahu di tengah kebuntuan politik yang mencengkeram
rezim di Tel Aviv.
"Bias parsial AS terhadap salah
satu tren paling radikal di Israel (pembangunan pemukiman ilegal) mencegahnya prinsip-prinsip
dasar hukum internasional," katanya kepada kantor berita resmi Palestina,
Wafa. "Ini tidak lain adalah upaya untuk mendukung Benjamin Netanyahu di
saat-saat terakhir dari ras (pemilihan) perdana menteri."
Palestinians
censure US policy shift on Israeli settlements
Additionally,
Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh stressed that
Washington’s new position on Israeli settler units is “void, unacceptable and
condemned.”
Pompeo’s
announcement “totally contradicts international law and resolutions that reject
settlements,” he said, noting that the US administration is “not qualified or
authorized to cancel the resolutions of international legitimacy, and does not
have the right to give any legitimacy to Israeli settlements.”
Abu
Rudaineh also urged the international community to reject the announcement
which threatens international peace and security.
Similarly,
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki denounced the recognition of
Israeli settlements as “lawless,” criticizing the US government for adopting an
anti-Palestinian agenda and endeavoring to legitimize “the Israeli colonial
settler agenda.”
“This
position violates international law, decades-long international consensus over
the issue and determinations of the International Court of Justice, the High
Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and United Nations resolutions,
including Security Council resolutions,” he said in a statement.
In
turn, Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) secretary
general, described Pompeo’s announcement as another attempt by the Trump
administration “to replace international law with the law of the jungle.”
“Israeli
settlements steal Palestinian land, seize and exploit Palestinian natural
resources, and divide, displace and restrict the movement of the people of
Palestine. In sum, Israel’s colonial-settlement enterprise perpetuates the
negation of the Palestinian right to self-determination,” he added.
Erekat
further called on the international community to “take all necessary measures
to respond [to] and deter this irresponsible US behavior.”
Hanan
Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, took to Twitter to condemn
Pompeo’s announcement as “another blow to international law, justice and peace
by a Biblical absolutist waiting for the rapture.”
Secara terpisah, gerakan perlawanan
Hamas Palestina, yang menjalankan Gaza, mengatakan pembalikan kebijakan
Washington "menegaskan bahwa itu adalah mitra dalam serangan terhadap
rakyat kami dan hak-hak mereka."
Humas Hamas, Hazim Qasim, menekankan
bahwa pemukiman Israel adalah "kejahatan perang di mana Israel mengusir
pemilik tanah ini dan membangun pemukiman menggunakan kekuatan dan membawa
warga Israel ke sana dari seluruh dunia."
Jordan
bergabung dengan paduan suara penghukuman
Sementara itu, Menteri Luar Negeri
Yordania Ayman Safadi memperingatkan tentang "keseriusan perubahan dalam
posisi Amerika terhadap permukiman dan dampaknya pada semua upaya untuk
mencapai perdamaian."
The
Israeli settlements “are a breach of international legitimacy, kill the
two-state solution and undermine chances of achieving a just and comprehensive
peace. The kingdom’s position in condemning the settlements is firm,” he said.
Emboldened
by Trump’s all-out support, Israel has stepped up its settlement construction
activities in the occupied territories in defiance of United Nations Security
Council Resolution 2334.
The
resolution, approved in December 2016, states that Israel’s establishment of
“settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East
Jerusalem [al-Quds], has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation
under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the
two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.”***
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