Forty-seven US Congress Democratic representatives sent a letter addressed to President Donald Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, asking the United States to recognize the Palestinian state.
The document, which came to public through Deputy Ro Khanna, argues that the White House needs to take steps to deal with the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, as well as claim that the government led by the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, tries to undermine a potential Palestinian condition.
Democrats condemn the possibility of attachment of the West Bank and Gaza, noting that Israeli politicians have made appeals in this regard. They also argue that past governments recognized that it was necessary to comply with the national rights of the Palestinian people.
“Just as the lives of Palestinians should be immediately protected, their rights as people and nation should also be urgently recognized and defended,” says an excerpt from the letter.
Democrats encouraged other states to also recognize a Palestinian state, following the example of France, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada – countries that chose to recognize Palestine in a announcement at the United Nations General Assembly last week.
“More than 150 countries recognize the Palestinian state. This is a moral issue. We cannot be isolated from the rest of the free world. We need to defend the dignity and rights of the Palestinian people. That’s why I am pressing for the United States to recognize the Palestinian state,” said California Ro Khanna.
In the letter, Congress representatives ensured that the possible Palestinian state would be obliged to recognize Israel completely, adopt a security structure and disarm and remove Hamas from power in Gaza.
Last Saturday (27), Khanna, at the Arab American National Convention, said that more democrats should have signed the letter, questioning the posture of their partisans regarding the Palestinian issue, especially now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “annexing the West Bank and erasing Palestinian identity.”
“If this party has no morality on Gaza’s issues, Palestinian national aspirations, and the creation of a state, the issue of not having military weapons who are killing women and children and leaving hungry people in Gaza, we will not have the moral vision necessary to win back the confidence of the American people,” Khanna told The Young Turks, Cenk Utgyr, according to a live broadcast, according to a live broadcast. do BreakThrough News . “We need a transformation of our own party.”
The congressman also classified as arrogant that American politicians did not recognize a Palestinian state when so many members of the international community had already committed to recognizing the entity, stating that it placed the country alongside “output in world opinion [Israel]”.
