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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has reprimanded the Palestinian unity agreement, saying Tel Aviv will not stop settlement constructions.

Press TV conducted an interview with Ralph Schoenman, the author of The Hidden History of Zionism and a political commentator in Berkeley, concerning Israel’s reaction towards the Palestinian unity deal.

Press TV: Israel keeps condemning the Palestinian unity deal. Will that, in fact, change anything on the ground?

Schoenman: Well, I think you have to bear in mind, you were quoting from Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Minister. On February 14 2009 Avigdor Lieberman called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Jewish state. He has been unabashed in making explicit with the basic content of Zionist occupation of Palestine in Catos, mainly removal of Palestinian people from their land and from history.

And this is a continuing process, but if I could just quote to you briefly from the chapter five of my book, The Seizure of the Land and The Hidden History of Zionism, this is Moshe Dayan, the former chief of staff and minister of defense chief, uninhibited in his summary of the nature of Zionistic occupation, when he addressed the Israel institute of technology, “We came here to a country populated by Arabs and we are building here an exclusive Hebrew Jewish state, instead of Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You do not even know the names of these villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist. Not only the books, the villages do not exist, Nahalal was established in place of Mahalul, Gevat in place of Jibta, Sarid in the place of Hanifas and Kafr Yehoushua in the place of Tel Shamam. There is not a single settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab village”.

That’s the legacy, that’s the history, that’s the constant policy. That’s the dynamic and nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine, the displacement of its people.

And when [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu declared in 2009 that his country will continue to expand its settlements, despite the calls by President Barack Obama or anyone else for this expansion to stop, that was the continuation of the constant policy articulated constantly by the Zionist spokesperson and enacted on the ground.

Press TV: Israel has threatened more settlements construction, specifically, in response to this Palestinian unity deal. Where does the international community, which has, as you mentioned, condemn Israeli settlement activity in the past, stand on this?

Schoenman: Well, I mean, as we have often we discussed on Press TV, the basic issue here, is that the Israeli state is an extension of US imperial power. It’s armed to the teeth by the United States. It’s been financed with over USD 100 billion in the past half century, and all the sub- imperial countries of NATO, and the country-selling regimes that, basically, populate the United Nations, whatever the rich service they give to self-determination, in practical terms, sustain the undertaking of the Israeli state and when the Israelis are condemned of the internal politics of the Palestinian movement, in relation to Hamas, the Palestinian Authority or what have you, all of that is just one more rhetorical flourish to maintain the policy of a constant removal, and the international community, as it’s called, does virtually nothing of any practical meaning.

After all, there was a formal condemnation of the Israeli settlements, and the US immediately vetoed that in the UN Security Council, this is the continuing policy that occurred in February of this year. What has happened on the part of other countries in the UN? Nothing, no condemnation of the UN veto, and no further action with respect to Israeli subjugation of the Palestinian population; he, on February 27, warns of Israelis’ plan to expel 600 Jerusalemites. It’s ethnic cleansing, that’s the permanent character of the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and their objective is very clear. They are going to impose a kind of Bantustan de facto continually removing Palestinian land, continually seizing their land, I’m sure there is no basis.

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