In an interview with Mondoweiss, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouti reflects on the importance of Palestinian national unity, the challenges facing the Palestinian struggle, and the right to resist.
U.S. media celebrated Oslo this week as a noble undertaking. But the Accords have been a cruel charade for Palestinians living under apartheid. “Accepting a life of subjugation to apartheid is not an option for Palestinians,” Mustafa Barghouti explains.
After 30 years of Oslo, the only remaining alternative to apartheid is one democratic state with equal national and civil rights, including the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people.
Some American protesters of the Israeli government fear for the future of the Israel lobby– that Israel’s fascistic steps could make it hard to sell the “special relationship” between U.S. and Israel.
The international delegitimization of Zionism has begun. Palestinian resistance to further ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem has been answered with a cascade of mainstream voices saying that Israel practices “apartheid” and Palestinians deserve equal rights, not missiles.
Mustafa Barghouti talks with Mondoweiss about the Trump administration’s Bahrain economic summit and “deal of the century.” “Everything they’ve done, and everything they’ve declared, shows they are trying to kill the two-state solution and the rights of Palestinians to have a state of their own,” Barghouti says. “They advocate sustaining occupation and apartheid.”