The process of forming a new government is still slowly moving along, but Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, whose far-right party is seen as almost certain to be part of the next government, made his first parliamentary speech last week, rejecting the notion of a free Palestinian state on religious grounds.
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There is no room in our small but wonderful God-given tract for another state,” Bennett insisted, adding “it won’t happen” and that negotiations could only begin after the Palestinians accept that not only Israel, but all of their land belongs exclusively to Israel.
Bennett maintains that all of the occupied territories, including the entire West Bank and the Gaza Strip, belong to Israel as a sort of divine set-aside, and has faulted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being “ambiguous” about whether or not peace could ever be allowed.
Bennett’s position as an opponent of peace talks on general principle is odd, as Jewish Home has come to a sort of joint arrangement with Yesh Atid, a secular centrist party that has pushed peace talks in the past, to join the government together to strengthen their bargaining position.
A thieve is a thieve even when the thieve bring in his good to negotiate for more of his thievery.
'God given tract'? So now we are supposed to recognize the Tract of Israel?
So what does he propose to do with the Palestinians who live there now?
GOD BLESS [america/britain] for what god told them to do with other people`s land.
MYSELF: My believe system says no place for Israelis on this planet.
Go F*ck yourself Naphthaline.
Right now there is de facto a single state operating in Israel and the Occupied Territories. If one tallies up the population of the total area, Israeli Jews today may already be a minority.
So, 3,000 years ago, a small tribe invents a god who then, conveniently, gives them the land which they occupy. Later this gift is used to oppress the people who had been living on that land for centuries. Makes perfect sense to me.
Why is a palestinian state such a good idea for the Palestinians? So Israel has a lot of clear targets to bomb?
Bennett, You ignorant!, it was promised to nation of Israel in the past many times!!!
But always, I repeat , A L W A Y S!!!!!! under G O D given simple conditions : " I F Y O U OB E Y"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Jews in Old testament mostly rebeled!!!!!! /even if God had pations with them and was sending prophets/, so they were kicked out to D I A S P O R A untill appointed times!!!!
If it was not written, I would not argue….,if truly God fearing Jews did not preach this historical fact, I would not argue….
Bennett, your "shortcut to promised land and building state of Israel, disobeing Gods Order!!!!, is just another blashemy and rebelion.".. Destruction of Palestine and its native population is not different from slotter of N. America Indians, its just unhuman colonization and normal land theft"……
And Palestine people are TRUTH SEMITES…
And Bennett, how could any Jew prove what tribe is he from, when all records were destroyed 70AD by Romans and Jerusalem was completaly destroyed?!?!?!
Gods Kingdom and Love was extended to A L L people….there is not any chosen race, Jews are just people like others -full stop!
Sorry, its Truth History versus Usefull Propaganda….petr czech
Mr. Bennet talks like mental patient. If he really believes in that god of theirs and everything in their Bible, he must know, that it was god punishment for Jews for their misdeeds, that they were chased out from their god given track. It is so simple – god gave you something, god took it away. So why neither Naftali nor Netenyahooo pay attention to the other half of story of their god given state. According to Bible Jews actually are supposed to wait still in exile waiting for Messiah. Messiah – their righteous king will come and gather the dispersed ones of Israel together. Not other way around Naftali! You should be still living wherever your god exiled you and pray for coming of Messiah. Otherwise you are committing a mortal sin of heresy. How many times your god will let you to make fun of him?
If they believe the bible they like to quite, we all are decendants of Adam & Eve, WE ARE ALL JEWS.
I'm pretty sure they like to quote the Bible that actually exists. You know, the one that defines the Jews as the descendants of Abraham and Sarah (as opposed to the descendants of Abraham and Hagar, or all the descendants of Adam, or some other formulation).
“A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly,
nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and
circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the
Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise
is not from men, but from God.” Romans 2:28
Promised Land — All of the earth made new
“The Lord then said to him, ‘Truly I say to you, that there is no
man who has been forced to give up his home, or wife, or
brothers, or parents, or children, for the spiritual kingdom of
God, who will not receive many times more the very moment
he is on the earth made new. It will surely come, in the life that
has no end.'” Luke 18:29 IGV