Speaking today at the Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ratcheted up the rhetoric to a dramatic degree, saying Israel will retain full military control over all of the occupied territories for the “foreseeable future” and dismissing the prospects of Palestinian statehood.
Incredibly, during the speech Netanyahu stared down the centrist opposition and declared that Israel “will forever live by the sword,” insisting that it is only the problem of “extreme Islam” that keeps the Palestinians from being potential partners in a two-state solution.
Yet this ultimately undercut his insistence that Israel intends to keep that territory for themselves, a plan which he was quick to include didn’t mean a “binational state” in which those living under occupation would become citizens.
Even members of the far-right Jewish Home party seemed taken aback by Netanyahu’s attitude, with Betzalel Smotrich asking why he even bothered with the pretense of talking to Abbas, claiming he was “pulling the world’s leg.”
Netanyahu insisted that he would talk with anyone who isn’t calling for Israel’s destruction, though at this point it seems more clear than ever that this is just talk for talk’s sake, and concessions aren’t being made to anyone.
The other day, the House put a temporary stop to Palestinian aid for speaking against Israel.
But it is OK for Israel to say worse things about Palestinians – like that hateful comment against the Mufti being responsible for Holocaust and now this?
@HyperNV, the other day the US also increased Israel's annual aid by $1 Billion. So yes, it's a double whammy where they cut the aid to Palestinians and increase the aid to Israelis.
Freedom of speech is only for Zios.
This is exactly what he said the day before the election. He tried to walk it back, but then bursts out with what he really plans.
The only future is an attempt at ethnic cleansing. Some big conflict will break out, and he'll use it as diversion and alleged excuse.
It is coming. There is no other way to resolve the impasse they created, and they must know that, so this can only be their intention.
If you parse Netanyahu's statements – "we want the Palestinian's land; we won't accept the Palestinians as Israeli citizens" – what is there left other than expulsion or genocide or eternal slavery? Any US congressman voting for more aid to these unnatural people is an absolute traitor to America and humankind.
"…what is there left…
The defeat of Israel is the seemingly forgotten, yet eventually inevitable consequence of perpetual war. "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
Instead of racist exceptionalism intending the erasure of the Palestinians, the Zionists could have been universalists with a policy of cultural inclusion, but they chose the wrong path. It's the same path that has repeatedly led the Israelites to destruction for the last 5000 years. It appears to be taking the Jews a very long time to learn their lesson, as by all indications they still seem clueless.
Oh, and while I'm at it, regarding the fantastical notion that the Mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of exterminating the Jews, I have a somewhat similar theory. The Zionists planned the "disposal" of the Palestinians long before Hitler formed the N@zi party, invoked Aryan supremacy, and set out to conquer the world. So perhaps it was the Zionists who taught Hitler about racial supremacy and the practical application of genocide. Just a thought.
And the idea historically been supported by the west and German chancellor, a Christians Democratic Party leader Angela Markel. Swedish government may have been supportive of Palestinians cause and their legal battle for identity and nationality, but rest of the western world and their politics is supporting the Jewish-Zionism idea to inhale the entire Palestinians land and slave Palestinians, if that was not the case Angela Markel and USG would stop their economic and political support to Israel. If they wanted for Palestinians to start building their own country, they would stop their support for Israel.
Wasn't this ahole's government supposed to implode? What happened?
Strongmen don't give up their power willingly.
Hey Bibi Kiddo. The "foreseeable future" is shrinking fast. Sometimes it shrinks so fast that people dreaming of 1000-year empires need to accomodate themselves with a mere 10 years.
I get the feeling Israel is about to start another war soon. Even though bibbi is perpetually banging the war drums they do seem to be getting louder just lately, and when they wheel out the hitler analogies it’s usually a precursor to some type of military action.
He could not have done this without the help of America.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
It has never needed it more.
May we further beg of the Almighty forgiveness for the crimes of the hostile elite that rules over this betrayed and abused people.
There hasvenever been any real "peace talks".
It was just that, talk to gain time for annexation of land.
Israel is a taker; it takes what it wants while whining that it is a victim.
If anyone has an extra straight jacket please step forward. Netanyahu needs one !
When big brother has your back the school yard
becomes your playground.
Brat Bibi has yet again let the cat out of the bag. The one apartheid state solution is the Racist path Israel has chosen. The UN, which created Israel, should declare that all residents of the old Palestine Mandate of 1947 are citizens with full rights of the unitary state and that new elections must be held with full participation within 90 days. If not, then Israel has no remaining pretense of being a legitimate state. All nations should henceforth shun and boycott it. Enough of this Racist BS of Israel being a 'democracy'.
How the PM can pretend that the Palestinians, with their infinite patience and willingness to compromise, have the slightest resemblance to militant Islam is beyond belief for normal humans. Militant zionism, unrelated to any form of Jewish religious feelings, has taken over the mainstream of Israeli politics and no form of admitting the humanity, let alone rights, of Palestinian people seems possible with such a leadership and its propagandizing of the Israeli youth and the US politicians.
Ok BIBI…so you die by the sword…
There is what people and governments say and there is what they actually do. Any rational review of the last 70+ years of the zionist actions can only lead to one conclusion, it is a racist supremacist ideology that intends to continue to steal land and ethnically cleanse the indigenous population on the land it steals. Any other conclusion is just "Bernays haze".
Israel is obviously increasingly frightened, probably by Putin's antics and the apparent US capitulation to him, which is, of course, encouraging ISIS. If Putin loses, and Assad goes, the new government will probably kick him out of the naval base and if he refuses to go, that could well lead to a shooting war with the US and Israel. If Putin "wins", and Assad stays, even if officially only "temporarily", which seems to be what Putin is angling for now, Putin is forced to prop him up permanently with military forces, probably being forced to up the ante constantly ("mission creep"!).
Israel “will forever live by the sword,”
Those that live by the sword will die by the sword
Recent outbursts from Netanyahu demonstrate why Israel will remain a tribal reservation "for the foreseeable future" and can't be considered a nation-state.
So, in other words, he believes he will get rid of the Palestinians-the Final Solution? As long as he's bringing up the Nazi's, let's tell it like it is. Bibi wants a Final Solution to the "Palestinian Problem". And Congress has its collective head up his a** so far that they will support anything he wants-it sickens me.