PLO Delegation to The US Denounces Sen. Cotton’s Bill
The General Delegation of the PLO to the United States denounces the recent bill introduced by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) which would allow goods produced in the West Bank and Gaza to be labeled “Made in Israel.” This attempt is a complete disregard of decades of longstanding Democratic and Republican policy to separate Israel from its illegal settlement enterprise.
Any attempt to legitimize or support illegal Israeli settlements is a blatant contravention of International Law and undermines the United States’ role.
These attempts by Senator Cotton and others in Congress proves that they are completely detached from all reality. Legitimizing Israeli settlements further strengthens radical settlers, incites them to commit more violence against Palestinians and prolongs the almost half-century old Israeli brutal military occupation of the Palestinian People.
The General Delegation of the PLO to the United States rejects all attempts to conflate Israel with Occupied Palestinian land that aim destroy the possibility of the two state solution and the future viability of a Palestinian state.…