Palestinian MP Halayka: Abbas is paving the way for official recognition of the Jewish state

Palestinian lawmaker Samira Halayka said that de facto president Mahmoud Abbas is paving the way for official Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, affirming that such recognition would not stop the Palestinian people from resisting the occupation.

“If the occupation authority went to the UN to get recognition of its Jewish state, as Abbas had suggested, it will not face any difficulty in getting what it wants because the position of the international community and the UN towards it is well known, not to mention the international pressures that would be made by the Jewish lobby to achieve this end,” MP Halayka stated in press remarks to Quds Press on Sunday.

The lawmaker strongly denounced Abbas for dominating the Palestinian decision-making with no regard to the presence of an elected body represented by the Palestinian legislative council.

She said that the Israeli occupation’s insistence on Palestinian recognition of a Jewish state confirms that the conflict in Palestine is a religious war between Muslims and Jews.

For his part, Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Dahbour warned that Mahmoud Abbas would condemn his authority to death if he dared to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

“If any Palestinian leadership tried to waive the Palestinian constants, it would condemn itself to death at the hand of its own people,” MP Dahbour told Quds Press.

He also warned that If Israel managed to get such recognition through the UN, the Palestinians would get into a dark tunnel where there is no escape from, and their right of return would vanish.

The lawmaker added that the Israeli occupation would also expel the Palestinians from their homes and towns in the 1948 occupied lands if its Jewish state was recognized.