State Of Palestine and Israel Peace Plan

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 5 February 2020.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:24, 5 February 2020

Thank you for that. It's more comprehensive than what I thought I was going to hear today. We all know that Israel and Palestine, the conflict and the dispute, is the longest-running geopolitical problem in the world, and the inability to solve this problem has led to a broad and deeply damaging effect on the relations between the Muslim world and western countries. As you have indicated, the position of the United States with its new peace plan means that it has now abandoned even the pretence of being a neutral arbiter. The so-called peace plan outlined recently would legitimise land theft on a huge scale and mean decades of work done by the international community to try to reach a consensus on a two-state solution may get thrown away.

I understand that you've written on this particular plan, but I want to understand what further representations you will seek to make to the Prime Minister and foreign Secretary to make it clear that you will not support any further encroachment by the Israeli Government in terms of the settlements. Many of them are already illegal, as we know, and—[Interruption.] I'm sorry, I'm being heckled by Neil Hamilton. I'm trying to ask a question, which is legitimate.