Faced with growing criticism from the far-right over a reported peace deal proposal, Israeli ruling party Likud issued a statement nationwide to synagogues in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out the two-state solution.
“Any evacuated territory will be overtaken by radical Islam and terror groups backed by Iran. Therefore there will be no withdrawals and no concessions. It’s just not relevant,” the statement read.
The Likud statement went on to say that Netanyahu’s 2009 declaration of support for a two-state solution was “annulled” adding that Netanyahu’s entire political career “is the struggle against the establishment of the Palestinian state.”
The statement prompted criticism from the Israeli left, leading Netanyahu to bizarrely deny that he’d ever made such comments as were attributed to him in the statement released by his own party.
Netanyahu is struggling, as usual, with his attempts to campaign on both sides of the fence, positioning himself, for the sake of far-right voters, as an ultrahawk with no designs on peace, and for the sake of centrist voters as a reasonable moderate.
Ultimately, these attempts alienate both sides, positioning himself as either a failed peacemaker or a failed warmaker, or some combination thereof.
Would jehova please command that this jerk be defeated in the election.
I thing that praying to Moloch would have greater effect; lately he has seemingly been in charge.
He will fall on his own Sword and time is longer than twine.
Warmonger, lier and most dangerous person in ME…..Pedro CR
Great news, when will this war criminal and his squatter nation vacate Palestine for the Palestinians then?
Time will tell Jamsey time will tell.
And that is the graveyard of the Kerry initiative.
Only solution is a one state solution with equal political rights for all in the former mandate. There should also be reparations paid to all Palestinians living in exile whose property was forcibly taken by the Zionist since 1948. There isn't enough land left for a viable Palestinian state.
Billionaire Zionist should pay for all this.
Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban have plenty of shekels.
One state solution will imply killings and more displacements…of Palestinians, who will not fit into a one state. The Israelites are committing suicide; or grasping at straws.
If Bibi doesn't want a two-state solution, let's see his plan for a one-state solution. He does have one, doesn't he? After all, he seems to know everything there is to know about Iran's nuclear program, but yet he doesn't know what he's going to do about his own country's internal issues? Really?
"Bibi" can make the Palestinians Israeli citizens with full voting privileges. I bet he would love that idea.