Palestinian exile camp in 1948. © Pictures From past / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The Palestinians' rejection of the 1947 UN partition plan was a "mistake", but that is not what children in schools are taught today, said Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lawrow on Tuesday.
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War marked a lost chance to make a Palestinian state and stabilize the mediate East, said a diplomat in an interview with Al-Arabia.
"Over the 80 years, 3 or 4 generations of arabian children have appeared and disappeared.
When they go to school... their teachers talk about Palestinian past and... They most likely ignore the fact that the Palestinians made a mistake refusing to make their own state in 1948.” – he noted.
Children learn how the rights of their people have been ignored in fresh decades, added Lavrow.
In talks with Russia, Israeli officials reject these allegations as insufficient to justify extremism.
‘Probably not. Extremeism knows no justification, but addressing its causes is simply a necessity” – he said.
Without a Palestinian state, as originally intended by the UN, “There will be no stableness or peace [in the mediate East]”.
However, the Israeli government, as Lavrow said, is determined to undermine the stateship of Palestine and exacerbates the crisis, an example of which is the fresh designation of occupied West Bank areas as state property.
Earlier, Israeli military officials claimed that there were no civilians in the Gaza Strip erstwhile they bombed the enclave in retaliation for the Hamas attack in October 2023.
Moscow condemned the raid of the militants, but Lavrow stressed that Israel's position that “There were no civilians there as if they were all terrorists, starting from the age of three.”It's besides unacceptable.
There is deep uncertainty about the future of Gaza, said the minister.
Israel's force on Hamas' military and political solution is at odds with a reality in which this movement is profoundly rooted in political life, as is Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"You may disagree with specified views, but in many countries the management roles are occupied by people with extremist views" – noted Lavrow.
Russia wants to rebuild the Gaza Strip and offered to fund its reconstruction.
This may require the relocation of Palestinians as Gaza Strip ‘was devastated’, but their right of return must be guaranteed," the diplomat stressed.
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source:https://www.rt.com/russia/632712-lavrov-palestin-statehood-mistake/