Israeli settlement expansion is killing possibility of any two-state solution (Khalid Amayreh)

Salam Fayyad admits there are no peace prospects

Khaled Amayreh reports for Al Ahram from the West Bank

  • Israel's "lack of will" to reach a genuine final-status settlement
  • Israel reneging on commitments to the roadmap
  • continuing Israeli settlement building particularly in East Jerusalem
  • continued presence of hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank
  • Israeli Housing Minister, "bids will go out soon to build 1,100 apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem."
  • Israel is killing the two-state solution by continuing Jewish demographic expansionIsraeli
  • Israel aims to destroy the Hamas government to lower Palestinian national expectations.
  • "Without Hamas there can be no peace, and the entire area may turn into another Iraq."

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