News - Middle East: An independent Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) says the so-called two-state solution has been used as a “smokescreen” to fake concern for Palestinians’ rights while leaving the illegal entity to press ahead with its acts of genocide.

Mick Wallace, an MEP from Ireland for the South constituency, made the comments in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday, which was accompanied by video footage of his address at a European Parliament’s plenary session held on December 13.

“The 2 State Solution is dead — killed by the apartheid” regime of Israel thanks to the US and the EU, Wallace wrote.

“It has been used as a smokescreen to pretend concern for the rights of Palestinians while leaving Israelis to pursue their genocide,” he added. “Palestinians have to fight for their human rights.”

Addressing the plenary session, the Irish MEP rebuked the Israeli regime and said the international community had turned a blind eye to the illegal entity’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

“Who is going to make them respect the 1967 lines? No one lifted a finger while they evicted Palestinians from their homes and lands, illegally annexed territory and built countless illegal settlements. Why should Palestinians accept the terms of a deal that they know from bitter experience the other side is incapable of honoring?” Wallace said.

“Three decades, we have talked about this proposal as it becomes more of a fantasy, while the Palestinians suffer the brutal grinding reality of apartheid,” he underlined.

“If this is all we have to offer, then the Palestinians are better-off pursuing their right to resist the colonization of their lands, to fight for self-determination, independence and the right of return for all Palestinian refugees, to fight for human rights and freedom.”

More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.

The UN Security Council resolutions have in the past called for the two-state solution based on the 1967 boundaries, and pronounced settlements in the two areas “a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution.”

Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds during the Six-Day War in 1967. It later annexed East Jerusalem al-Quds in a move not recognized by the international community.

Palestinians want the resolution of the conflict with Tel Aviv based on the so-called two-state solution along the pre-1967 boundaries. However, Israeli officials insist on maintaining the occupation of Palestinian territories.

The last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was Israel’s continued settlement construction activities in the occupied lands.

Source: Press TV