Barghouti calls on PA security services to protect Palestinians from settler attacks

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative has called on the Palestinian Authority security services to change their security doctrine and get involved in popular committees to protect the Palestinians from Jewish settler attacks.

“Moreover, comprehensive boycott and sanctions must be imposed on the fascist and racist occupation government,” Dr Mustafa Barghouti told Al Jazeera. “We need protection not only from the terrorist settlers, but also from the racist and fascist government… The protection must not be similar to that brought about following the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994, which was dismissed by Israel without taking any single action.”

Barghouti called on Arab and Muslim countries, as well as the international community, to boycott Israel. This will be effective, he said, because most of the settlers are European or American citizens.

He argued that the US and the EU should be able to deter the settlers in “ten minutes” as they have imposed more than 11,000 sanctions on Russia since the start of its war in Ukraine last year. If the EU and the US do not try to deter settler violence, he said, they would be complicit in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

In closing, Barghouti suggested that the Palestinians will probably have to depend on themselves because of the double-standards of the international community. Nevertheless, he called on the PA to get involved in the popular protection committees against the settler attacks.

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