Former Israeli PM: ‘We have to embark on negotiations that will lead to a two- state solution’

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‘The Middle East is in the middle of a violent, brutal confrontation… that we have not experienced for many years’.  Ehud Olmert, Israel’s former Prime Minister has spoken to CGTN about how he has been working on a two-state solution to end the war in Gaza.  #gaza #palestine #israel #middleeast #october7th

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00:00First thing, the most powerful is the site of the Israelis which were massacred and butchered

00:09and raped and beheaded by the cannibals of the Hamas. This is something which is

00:18so painful that there is no way that we can just ignore the terrible ramifications of what

00:30happened. Let us take stock. Where is the Middle East today? The Middle East is in the middle

00:37of a military, violent, brutal confrontation, the lack of which we haven't experienced

00:47for many, many years. And the question is, where is it going to? Is it going to

00:56relax somehow, or is it going to expand and become a major all-out war that will involve

01:05the major powers? Where is the resolution? How does it come about, if it does come about?

01:13Together with a colleague of mine from the Palestinian side, the former foreign minister

01:18of the Palestinian Authority and the ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Nasser al-Kidwa, we have

01:25drafted a written plan, and we signed it, which offers the procedure to end the war in Gaza

01:36and then to embark on negotiations for a two-state solution. Let's assume that

01:41we have successfully destroyed the military capacity of Hamas and that Gaza can be

01:48controlled by more moderate forces of the Palestinian Authority in cooperation with

01:58our countries, moderate Arab countries. What is next for us, and what is next for them?

02:07There are still six million Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. What do we want to do

02:15in order to change the balance that has characterized the relations between us and

02:21them for so many years? I think that we have to embark on negotiations that will lead to a

02:26two-state solution.

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