Azerbaijan, Baku, April 22 /Trend, A.Taghiyeva/
Recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.S. and Israel is still an unresolved issue, and the changes in the regimes of several Arab countries are the only hope for creating a Palestinian state, says a member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), chairman of the Arab bloc "Sheba" - "Taal" Ibrahim Tsartsur.
"Change of regime in the Arab countries has a positive impact on solving the problem of a Palestinian state," Tsartsur told Trend by telephone from Tel Aviv.
Tsartsur said the new regime in some Arab countries will use the economic interests of Israel and the United States in these countries in order to force them to recognize a Palestinian state.
"If to hope only for the political and diplomatic solution to this issue, the U.S. and Israel will make impossible the recognition of a Palestinian state. More drastic measures are necessary," Tsartsur said.
Since early 2011 a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, have been subjected to a wave of popular discontent, which resulted in riots and protests against the existing regimes in these countries. Popular protests have led to the downfall of the ruling regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. Currently, a fierce struggle between the authorities and armed rebels continues in Libya.
The U.S. authorities will not change its policy in supporting Israel in the issue of recognition of a Palestinian state," said Tsartsur, commenting on the recent statement by the U.S. government that if Israel does not recognize a Palestinian state, then Washington will not recognize Palestine within borders in 1967.
He also said that even if the UN adopts a resolution on the independence of a Palestinian state, it will be another document that does not solve the problem and will not give any results.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is going to address the UN with a request to adopt a resolution on the independence of a Palestinian state.
"We want to address the United Nations in September. I do not say that there is some promise, but Obama's statement was clear and exact. He said:" I want to see a full-value state in September," and September is near," Abbas said.
Previously it was reported that the UN special coordinator for Middle East peace process Robert Serry said that the Palestinians are technically ready to create their own independent state.
Palestinian National Authority seeks to establish an independent state within the 1967 borders, and expects that during international negotiations, Israel will withdraw its troops from the Palestinian territories occupied after the 1967 war - the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. In this territory the PNA wants to form a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
Israel considers Jerusalem, including its Arab areas occupied during the 1967 war, its "united and indivisible" capital. The Palestinians want to see East Jerusalem the capital of their own state. From the point of view of international law, East Jerusalem belongs to the occupied territories, whose status should be determined in negotiations between the conflicting sides.