Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loudly condemned the notion of an independent Palestinian state being recognized by the international body, saying that the Palestinians would have to reach a final peace deal with Israel, something which isn’t even being discussed by the two sides, before independence could even be considered.
As usual this included a number of demands from Netanyahu that the Palestinians would have to accept as a condition for ending the occupation, including recognizing Israel as “the Jewish state.”
The Palestinian Authority submitted its proposal for recognition to the United Nations Security Council today, just over a year after the last direct talks with the Israeli government, and are believed to have a strong majority in the general assembly, as well as a likely majority in the security council. President Obama has vowed to veto Palestinian independence on Israel’s behalf.
Perhaps the most unusual comment from Netanyahu, however, was that Israel would never accept an independent state in Gaza, saying that Israel would only accept an independent Palestine within a portion of the West Bank. Though Netanyahu’s Likud Party were loudly in opposition to withdrawing settlers from the tiny Gaza Strip, it is unclear what Israel plans to do with the strip in the event the PA ever got an independent state in the small portion of the West Bank which doesn’t contain settlements.
Bibi got almost no press and he looked like a mad man when they did cover him. It is getting more and more difficult to figure who is the bigger idiot Lieberman or bibi. How can a nation of smart people have such morons. The arab guy sure made the case of what scumbags the settlers area. One hears at the United Nation the fact that they turn their dogs lose on the arab kids with the IDF watching. We pay the salaries of those brave soldiers who watch the kids being ripped apart by the dogs just like they watched as 800 old arab woman were killed by knived in Sarbra, Lebanon. The good die young and that is why the mass murderer of Sharon will live forever. The devil does not want to give his place a bad name by letting sharon in.
'How can a nation of such smart people have such morons' ? you ask. Racism. Racism makes morons of even the smartest people. I've seen doctors and lawyers spew out the n-word. Instantly turned into morons before my very eyes.
The statements coming from Israel are beyond bizzare. All of the demands of Palestinian side are not possible to meet, unless Israel declares its legitimate borders. As it stand now, it is not possible to recognize someone's "right to exist", as this is not a legal term. The demand should instead be for RECOGNITION, and this can only be done after Israel declares what it claims to be the borders. Since Israel does not want to do that, it is a logical assumption that it wants to keep some of the occupied territory. No country can be recognized in UN, unless its request comes with defined borders. Before this is flushed out, the issue of Jewishness of the state, are irrelevant. For example, if all of the territories become Israel one day, the majority population becomes Palestinian. Majority cannot deprive itself of citizen status before it becomes clear what state they will eventially live in. The problem will not be resolved between the parties, as the occupier and the occupied cannot really have any framework to resolve issues. But the situation on ground changed. Former supporters of the process are out — both Turkey and Egypt are no longer interested in status quo.
"The statements coming from Israel are beyond bizzare. All of the demands of Palestinian side are not possible to meet, unless Israel declares its legitimate borders."
Thank you for stating that. It cannot be said often enough. Israel has never declared its territorial boundaries, which is precisely why, until Isreal does, it can never be an ally of the United States.
Zionist Israel was created by the West so that there would never be peace in the Middle-East. For only on stolen land could Israel be established and only a state of war could this bring about.
Who would have thought the victims of the last great war would fall prey to doing to others, many of the same evil acts that they suffered under the temporarily deceived Germans…. and America too We seem to kill what we love MOST…!!! Sad… Sad… SAD..!!!
I suspect that the discovery of a large well of natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip might have something to do with Netan-Yahoo’s statement regarding Gaza. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va…
That and denying the Palestinians access to any open-water port facilities. Port facilities mean ships: ships mean LOTS of materials in and out, ships mean more opportunities for economic success.
Funny that just yesterday Bibi was wanting to talk all chummy with Abbas wanting to chat about the situation, to 'work things out'… but today, this.
I wonder if Gaza is that important to Bibi that he would be willing to trade an equal amount of land around, oh, say…. Jerusalem, including unrestricted access to the Al-Aqsa area?
Excellent points, John. Tis part of the plan to make the Palestinians disappear which is what Israel is really after.
Bibbi, go suck a lemon! You are idiotic!
My kingdom for a fly swatter!
I hope everyone appreciates the irony (and hypocrisy) of America's first African-American president vetoing the bid for recognition of brown people for the benefit of white Eastern Europeans and Russians.
Yes! The shills is actually pushing Apartheid. The irony did not escape me but seriously doubt that it will ever make it home with the ones who truly need to be paying attention.
Affirmative Action at its best – Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize for his defense of Democracy around the world… what a horrible joke.
Israel is a very desappointing state. Its victim personae playing is over, they have no intention of returning land they have occupied since 1967. Palestine has existed since biblical times, so they were lucky to go back to the region because Palestinians were opened to cohabiting with them. Now it turns out they are occupied, that what happens when one is too nice, you get taken over just like Indians with early Americans.
Netanyahu is beginning to make Hitler look like a boyscout – how soon before Bibi has ovens built in the Gaza concentration camp?
Peace would come to the Middle East as soon as the US cuts all ties with Israel; stops all military and financial support of Israel – expelles all of the TRAITORS in AIPAC to Israel; expells all of the TRAITORS in Congress to Israel.
NEVER going to happen – as the US is totally controlled by Zionist TRAITORS to the US and by Israel.
Yes, opening his mouth and lying is something the shill does know how to do well. In that respect, he sounds a lot like his cousin Hillary 'the Mouth' Clinton.
For comedy value, listen to the people on the left of the Dem party now presenting Hillary as the 'progressive' alternative to Obama. Funnier than anything Jerry Seinfeld ever did.
This belligerent little Nazi prick. Someone should have 'loudly condemned Jewish statehood bid in 1948' realizing the security of all those in the region would be threatened.
Shouldn't have looked the other way while this intolerant bunch of religious Fascists acquired nukes either.
Shown in 2011, a couple of a-hole moves with dire consequences
The real terrorists is Israel and America just look at there actions and the Sampson Option.
Why would anyone write that its unclear what Israel wants to do with Gaza. We've got 50 years of history to study that tells us exactly what Israel wants to do with Gaza. Israel obviously wants Gaza to be exactly what they've deliberately turned Gaza into …. the world's largest outdoor concentration camp.
I there anything he does not do "loudly?
I'd bet not.
Did anyone here even read the text of his speech? Where does he say that "Israel would never accept an independent state in Gaza, saying that Israel would only accept an independent Palestine within a portion of the West Bank"?
Bibi's brand of evil is displayed so often that it has become banal.
Why doesn't Egypt just absorb Gaza? (And the offshore gas field)
Israel should then annex the West Bank; then go all Queen Isabella and expel all non-Jews. Build a bigger wall and hunker down in their Jewish Paradise.