Eduardo González
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, warned yesterday in Valladolid that the two-state solution “must be imposed from the outside” because the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu “absolutely refuses.” Likewise, he assured that the Hamas terrorist movement “has been financed by Israel to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
Borell spoke these words at the University of Valladolid (UVa), where he was awarded an Honoris Causa Doctorate, at the proposal of the Institute of European Studies, for his “teaching projection in the international arena” and for his contribution to “the geostrategic and international dimension of Spain and of the European Union.”
During his speech, Borrell again defended the recognition of the Palestinian state and lamented that, despite widespread support for the two-state solution, “we have never done much to achieve it” in the last 30 years. “The good news is that there are people willing to do it, and the bad news is that Israel, particularly its government, flatly refuses,” he continued.
Netanyahu himself, he assured, “has been personally boycotting” the two-state solution for 30 years. To that end, he continued, Israel not only created the Islamic terrorist group Hamas (author of the wave of attacks on October 7, which triggered Netanyahu’s current military response in the Gaza Strip), but even financed it. “Yes, Hamas has been funded by the Government of Israel for years to try to disempower the Fatah Palestinian Authority,” he said.
“Israel’s security cannot be achieved by military means alone,” but “everyone who says they are in favor of the two-state solution has to be actively involved in making it a reality,” Borrell warned. Therefore, if the international community is really in favor, the “two-state solution must be imposed from the outside to bring peace,” because “if we do not intervene strongly, the spiral of hatred and violence will continue from generation to generation, from generation to generation. funeral after funeral, when the seeds of hatred that are being sown in Gaza today bloom.”
