Carter slams Israel, says it wants one bi-national state
Former American president, Jimmy Carter, stated in an op-ed published by the Washington Post that Israeli leaders want to continue colonizing the West Bank, and that Israel wants a one bi-national state.
The former president added that the ongoing Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories aim at voiding the two-state solution.
He stated that Israeli leaders insist on colonizing the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and that most of the Palestinian leaders he met said that they would consider accepting a one state that extends between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Carter added that the Palestinian could become fellow citizens with their Jewish neighbors, and that they would denounce the demand of an independent Palestinian State for democracy and equality with the Jews.
He also said that the Palestinian nonviolent civil rights struggle, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, would continue until achieving equality.
Referring to repeated Israeli statements regarding maintaining Jewish majority in Israel, Carter said that non-Jews in the country already comprise a slight majority and Arab would anyway become a majority in Israel within a few years.
The former president slammed the ongoing illegal settlement activities and said that settlement expansion is taking over Palestinian lands, villages, hilltops, farming lands and olive groves.
He also criticized the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and said that Gaza is a "walled-in ghetto surrounding 1.6 million Palestinians".
Carter stated that Israel is preventing the entry of cement, agricultural equipment including seeds, fertilizer materials, and other essential equipment into the coastal region.
He also stated that the people in Gaza are unable to repair their schools, hospitals, business and other facilities that were destroyed or badly damaged during the latest Israeli war in Gaza.
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