The Palestinian National Authority states that the United States "has lost all credibility and no longer has any role in the peace process." PLO accuses Trump of wanting to impose the "jungle law."
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have strongly condemned the US decision to consider the Israeli colonies legal in the West Bank.
In the opinion of the ANP, the United States (USA) "has neither the right nor the authority to revoke resolutions of international legitimacy, nor does it have the right to grant any legitimacy to Israeli settlements."
The spokesman for the Presidency of the Palestinian Authority, Nabil Abú Rudeina, argues that the Government of Donald Trump "has completely lost all credibility and no longer has any role in the peace process" and added that at the statement of the secretary of state American, Mike Pompeo, "is void, rejected, condemned and totally contrary to international law."
Therefore, he has urged governments around the world to reject and condemn the change for being "illegal" and "a threat to international peace and security."
For his part, the secretary general of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has assured that "the United States does not apply this position to other regions of the world, which is a direct challenge to the International Law that seeks undermine its foundations and replace it with the law of the jungle, "according to the Palestinian news agency Maan.
Therefore, it has called on the international community to respond to these statements "because this behavior poses a threat to international stability." The international community must hold the United States accountable for its "flagrant and continuing violations of International Law."
Two Israeli soldiers guard a settlement. Photo: EFE
Israel, on the other hand, has celebrated the change and thanked the "steady and firm" support of the United States. For the Israeli Foreign Ministry, as of now, "there is no dispute over the right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel."
With the announcement of Pompeo, the United States Government left behind the legal opinion it issued in 1978, during the presidency of Democrat Jimmy Carter, and that declared that Israeli civil settlements in occupied Palestinian territories were "incompatible with international law."
Some 531,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, according to 2012 data, partly in colonies considered legal by Israel and partly in settlements considered illegal even by the Israeli Government. The current figures could be higher.