“The increase in votes of the parties of the Israeli extreme religious right in the elections held on Tuesday is a natural result of the situation (in Israel), as evidenced by the crimes against our people, which include murders, arrests, raids by settlers and desecration of cities and villages,” he stressed.

“We never had any illusions about the outcome of the elections and that a partner for peace could come out of the polls,” he said after the victory of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a staunch defender of the colonization of the West Bank.

On the other hand, activist Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, considers Netanyahu’s return to power as the definitive consecration of the racist apartheid system and the death of the so-called two-state solution.

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