None.
None. On the issue of the Palestinian state,
I would ask the gentleman that posed the question the
the beginning question should be do the Palestinian people deserve
a state?
It's not about the Palestinian leadership.
This is an issue of self determination for the people
of Palestine.
So if we all agree that the people of Palestine
deserve self determination and we understand that it is their
desire to have a state of their own,
then they deserve a state and they deserve to be
recognised.
How they are governed is up to the Palestinian people.
And how we deal with them then is a reflection
of whether or not that government is responsible and is
able to live up to its responsibilities to its neighbours.
And in that regard, I would point out that the
Palestinian Authority,
with all of the challenges that have been put in
its place,
with all of the difficulties that it's had to deal
with,
and stipulating that it is an imperfect authority,
has lived up to its responsibility to Israel,
its main responsibility to Israel,
which is providing security. And
even with the difficult situation that we face now,
the the West Bank has not been a sort of
threat to Israel's security.
Nonetheless, Israel continues to actively undermine every day that same
authority that has lived up to all of its commitments
under Oslo.
At the same time, when we see what happened in
Gaza, it has been well reported,
including in Israeli media, that it was a policy of
the Israeli government to continue to empower
Hamas's control of Gaza as a way of undermining the
prospects for A2 state solution.
So what I would say is that the surest path
to address
not just the rights of the Palestinian people,
but also the legitimate security concerns of Israel and the
opportunities that exist for a a fully integrated Israel in
the region is through an establishment of the Palestinian state.
And that pathway to a Palestinian state puts a responsibility
on the Palestinians
for ensuring good governance of the territories they control,
but also puts a responsibility on us as the international
community and especially those that advocate for a Palestinian state,
to ensure that that Palestinian state lives up to it's
responsibility to it's people
and to it's neighbours. And that will
certainly not be an easy task,
but it is a necessary task because if we say
they are not ready,
when will they be ready?
It will never be exactly perfect.
So we must start from the point
that we all agree that
Palestine deserves self determination and that comes through a state.
I, I will,
I will also point out that they have a new
government and that government has made significant commitments to reform,
which has been lauded by the international community.
The status of President Abbas,
of course, is also something that he has talked about
before.
And
it's up to the Palestinians to decide.
It's not up to us to tell them how to
live their lives.
We can only say these are your responsibilities.
You must live up to them.
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