In the past 20 months, more than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and nearly 950 in the occupied West Bank. International law specialist Monique Chemillier-Gendreau says Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks is part of a wider plan to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Western governments, she says, are letting Israel act with impunity.
RFI: Your book Making a Palestinian State Impossible: Israel's Objective Since its Creation begins in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement was gaining ground in Europe. You write that the Western world “sacrificed” the Palestinian people. What do you mean by that?
