Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, September 11, 2025, that there would never be a Palestinian state, during a signing ceremony of a major colonization project in the occupied West Bank. His remarks, made to Maalé Adoum, colony located east of occupied Al Quds, immediately aroused international sentences.
During an event celebrating the approval of a large construction plan of 3,400 dwellings in the so -called E1 area, Netanyahu proclaimed:
“We are going to keep our promise: there will be no Palestinian state, this place belongs to us”.
The Head of Government added that he wanted to “double the population” of Maalé Adoum to preserve the “inheritance” and the “security” of Israel.
The project in question, validated last month, links Al Quds occupied to the neighboring colonies, even more fragmenting the West Bank and threatening the territorial continuity of a future Palestinian State.
Excluding Al Quds-Est, occupied and annexed by Israel, some three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, alongside around 500,000 Israelis installed in colonies that the UN judges illegal with regard to international law.
This declaration comes while western countries like France, Australia and Canada have announced their intention to recognize a state of Palestine in the UN General Assembly at the end of September. London said he would do the same, unless Israel made a series of commitments, including that of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
Convictions
Antonio Guterres firmly sentenced the Israeli decision, calling to preserve the two -state solution.
The Palestinian authority has denounced an additional step in “the progressive annexation” of the West Bank.
The Israeli far right by the voice of the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich welcomed the project, exhorting to its acceleration and the outright annexation of the occupied territories, in response to the growing international recognitions of a Palestinian State.
The E1 plan
The E1 plan has been considered one of the most controversial for decades. By connecting Al Quds-Est to the surrounding colonies, he would divide the West Bank into two distinct blocks, making practically impossible the creation of a viable Palestinian State. Several Western governments and international organizations had already warned of Israel against this initiative.
