“We must not give up the vision of 'two peoples, two states': we must be like the drop that penetrates the rock.” This is the promise of Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of an important diplomatic mission: tomorrow will be the deputy Prime Minister actually be in Lebanon, then in Israel and finally in Ramallah to talk to the Palestinian Authority; and he will propose to all interlocutors what he believes is the solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's “no” to a Palestinian state, the Deputy Prime Minister – interviewed by RaiNews 24 – notes
that even Hamas said: “Never two peoples, two states”. “When
There is war – he emphasized – it is clear that the parties are at odds
Fighting prevents them from making decisions that could be interpreted as giving in. But the USA, Europe and the G7 are all for “two peoples and two states”, starting with the Palestinian state, which must recognize Israel’s right to exist.” “We will continue to work,” the deputy prime minister continued, “Herzog is more open-minded than Netanyahu . I hope that this can be achieved with slow diplomatic work, strong American action and the Arab countries
convince the Palestinian world that the goal can be achieved
for which we work. “Italy is doing everything it can to promote de-escalation and prevent the conflict that exploded with Hamas’s incredible violence against Israel from becoming a regional conflict.”