RELATED:Falk: Population transfer may be war crimeUN investigator: 'Boycott legitimate anti-occupation tool'Falk reported to the UN General Assembly that it would also be very difficult to make east Jerusalem the capitol of a potential Palestinian state."The extension of the Jewish presence in east Jerusalem by way of unlawful settlements, house demolitions, revocations of Palestinian residence rights, makes it increasingly difficult to envisage a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem.""You have to disconnect between an inter-governmental peace process and an illusion that at the end of this process is an independent sovereign Palestinian state," Falk told reporters.Falk added that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian terrirtories since 1967 "exacts an enormous human cost in terms of the daily existence of every Palestinian trapped in this reality."
UN envoy: Settlements major obstacle to Palestinian state
David Falk tells General Assembly two-state solution "problematic because it would require substantial reversal of settlement process."
RELATED:Falk: Population transfer may be war crimeUN investigator: 'Boycott legitimate anti-occupation tool'Falk reported to the UN General Assembly that it would also be very difficult to make east Jerusalem the capitol of a potential Palestinian state."The extension of the Jewish presence in east Jerusalem by way of unlawful settlements, house demolitions, revocations of Palestinian residence rights, makes it increasingly difficult to envisage a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem.""You have to disconnect between an inter-governmental peace process and an illusion that at the end of this process is an independent sovereign Palestinian state," Falk told reporters.Falk added that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian terrirtories since 1967 "exacts an enormous human cost in terms of the daily existence of every Palestinian trapped in this reality."