RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 3, 2020 (WAFA) – Reacting to the preliminary results of the Israeli elections that seem to have favored Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials said today that the results showed that settlements, occupation and apartheid have won.

“It is obvious that settlement, occupation and apartheid have won the Israeli elections.,” said Saeb Erekat, PLO secretary general. “Netanyahu’s campaign was about the continuation of the occupation and conflict, which will force the people of the region to live by the sword: continuation of violence, extremism and chaos.”

Mustafa Barghouti, member of the PLO and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, also said that extremism and racism have won.

He described in a statement the results of the Israeli elections as “a vote for right-wing populist extremism and racism. It proves the extent of the turn of the Israeli society towards horrid racism and the consolidation of the racist apartheid system against the Palestinian people. It also indicates the growing weight and influence of colonial settlers in the occupied territories on Israeli decisions.”

Barghouti called on the Palestinian factions to draw lessons from the results of the Israeli elections and speed up unification efforts around a vision of struggle to defeat the American so-called deal of the century, apartheid and discrimination.

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