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West aims to delay Palestinian Authority’s ICC recourse: Analyst
The US and its allies use Israeli-Palestinian talks as a “strategy” to “delay” the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) recourse to international arbitration over Israel’s expansionist policies, an analyst says.
On Sunday, Joe Catron, member of International Solidarity Movement, told Press TV that the talks serve as a “strategy” to the US and its European allies to “prevent or postpone” the PA’s “recourse to international institutions like the International Criminal Court (ICC) to challenge” Israel’s illegal settlement activities.
“By essentially forcing these talks...the US and the EU are at the very least delaying that kind of a move by the Palestinians and preventing a great deal of embarrassment for themselves at least for the time being,” he added.
Catron also argued that the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are “very unlikely” to result in any agreement between the two sides.
The Israeli regime’s illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands is one of the sticking points in the talks, which resumed in July 2013. Tel Aviv has turned a cold shoulder to international calls for a halt in its illegal settlement expansion.
On January 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Tel Aviv regime would not remove a single settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tel Aviv’s settlement policy has also drawn angry reactions from European countries, including Britain, Italy, France and Spain, which summoned Israeli envoys to their countries in protest at the regime’s illegal settlement plans earlier this month.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1967.
PressTV - West aims to delay Palestinian Authority’s ICC recourse: Analyst
The US and its allies use Israeli-Palestinian talks as a “strategy” to “delay” the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) recourse to international arbitration over Israel’s expansionist policies, an analyst says.
On Sunday, Joe Catron, member of International Solidarity Movement, told Press TV that the talks serve as a “strategy” to the US and its European allies to “prevent or postpone” the PA’s “recourse to international institutions like the International Criminal Court (ICC) to challenge” Israel’s illegal settlement activities.
“By essentially forcing these talks...the US and the EU are at the very least delaying that kind of a move by the Palestinians and preventing a great deal of embarrassment for themselves at least for the time being,” he added.
Catron also argued that the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are “very unlikely” to result in any agreement between the two sides.
The Israeli regime’s illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands is one of the sticking points in the talks, which resumed in July 2013. Tel Aviv has turned a cold shoulder to international calls for a halt in its illegal settlement expansion.
On January 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Tel Aviv regime would not remove a single settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tel Aviv’s settlement policy has also drawn angry reactions from European countries, including Britain, Italy, France and Spain, which summoned Israeli envoys to their countries in protest at the regime’s illegal settlement plans earlier this month.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1967.
PressTV - West aims to delay Palestinian Authority’s ICC recourse: Analyst
