Office of the Zionist entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday in a statement issued shortly after the UN General Assembly voted for Palestine’s non-member state status at the world body.
Palestinians' UN bid violated existing agreements with the Zionist entity and the Zionist government will "act accordingly" in response, the office of the entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday in a statement issued shortly after the UN General Assembly voted for Palestine's non-member state status at the world body.
"This is a meaningless decision that will not change anything on the ground," claimed the statement, reflecting the Zionist anger towards the Palestinian victory.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that there will be no establishment of a Palestinian state without an agreement to ensure the security of Israel's citizens. He will not allow a base for Iranian terrorism to be established in Judea and Samaria (bibilical reference to the West Bank)," it added.
The statement read that the usurping entity is open to renew the peace process in "direct negotiations without preconditions and not by a one-sided UN decision."
In a vote of 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions, the 193-member United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution upgrading the status of Palestine from a non-member observer entity to a non-member observer state. Among the opponents were Canada and the United States.
In a stern speech prior to the vote, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused the Zionist entity of ethnic cleansing and likened its reign of the occupied 1967 territories as that of an apartheid state.
However, he said the Palestinians haven't come to the UN to delegitimize the entity of occupation but rather to affirm the legitimacy of a Palestinian state, in what he called the last chance for peace based on the two-state solution.
In a separate statement, Netanyahu's office called Abbas' speech as "defamatory and venomous" and "full of mendacious propaganda against the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and the citizens of Israel."
The Zionist entity's standings within the international community had deteriorated since the peace process with the Palestinians came to a halt in 2010 over the settlements construction in the West Bank.
The international community has repeatedly condemned the entity for expanding its construction in the settlements and there have been calls to ban or mark products that are produced in the settlements.