Arab League chief: Israel seeks to impose its will on the world

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy welcomed the statement issued yesterday by eight Arab and Islamic countries condemning Israel’s declared rejection of the roadmap aimed at advancing the comprehensive plan to end the conflict in Gaza.

Fahmy stressed that Israel’s position and that of its prime minister reveal a clear intent to undermine all mediation efforts and maintain the status quo in Gaza, which means continuing daily violence, expanding the occupation, and preventing any resolution of the dire humanitarian conditions faced by more than two million Palestinians in Gaza for the past three years.

He said the Israeli prime minister is driven by clear domestic considerations, and his public positions show disregard for international will as embodied in the peace plan, UN Security Council Resolution 2803, and subsequent arrangements reached by mediators, which include limiting Hamas’s weapons in parallel with an Israeli withdrawal, deploying an international stabilization force, and transferring administrative authority to the National Committee for Gaza Administration.

Fahmy added that Hamas’s acceptance of these arrangements, contrasted with Israel’s failure to fulfill its commitments, places full responsibility on Israel. He also said the international community—especially the United States, which has sponsored the agreement since last October—bears a moral and political responsibility to pressure the party obstructing the deal and failing to meet its obligations, in order to move immediately to the second phase of the peace plan.

The Arab League chief further stated that Israel seeks to impose its will not only on the Palestinians but on the entire world, and envisions agreements that place obligations only on one side without itself committing to anything—whether halting violence or withdrawing from the territories it occupies in Gaza—which, he said, is unacceptable by any reasonable standard.

Fahmy called on all countries that still believe in the two-state solution as the sole path to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to take a unified and clear stance against the extremist Israeli government, whose prime minister openly rejects the principle of a Palestinian state. He said Israel must realize that its disregard for international will cannot continue without consequences.