While most of his comments today focused on talking up the ongoing war in Gaza and the escalations to come, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spent some time condemning the peace process in general.
Netanyahu insisted the latest Gaza conflict proved that Israel could never allow an independent Palestine in the occupied West Bank, insisting it would simply become “another 20 Gazas.”
“I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan,” Netanyahu declared.
He then singled out Secretary of State John Kerry for criticism for pushing for the two state solution, saying “we live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.”
How convenient for this mass murderer. If anyone needs further proof that the Israeli government is a racist colonizing aggressor, as a tribute to the 3 slain Israelis the Israeli politicians are suggesting stealing more Palestinian land and adding more settlements. It would not be surprising if the Shin Bet or Mossad actually had something to do with the deaths of the 3 Israelis in an effort to instigate the land grab and another slaughter in Gaza.
Israel and Netanyahu have opted for the one state solution. The US, the UN and all nations should demand elections within 90 days to establish a legitimate government. All the people of Israel, of the former West Bank and of the former Gaza must be given the vote and full and equal citizenship in all matters. If this does not happen then Israel should be treated as illegitimate. It's borders should be sealed, trade limited to humanitarian items, financial services blocked, etc. There is no place in the world for Netanyahu's brand of Racism and slow Genocide. Netanyahu has made his choice and Israel must be forced to abide by it to the moral standard of anti-Racism that the international community has adopted for all other countries. The one state solution requires equality for all the inhabitants of that state.
Very well said. Thank you.
Bibi showing his true colors, what we knew all along, there will be no peace or state for the Palestinians, ultimately they will be herded onto "reservations," sound familiar?
The only thing that this unprovoked attack upon Gaza proves is that Netanyahou's Israel does not belong amongst civilized nations. Israel needs to be invaded itself and stripped of all its weaponry.
Give it time. If Israel continues to destabilize the region by invoking "transfer", they might find ISIS as neighbors from Lebanon to the Gulf of Aqaba. Maybe even the Egyptian border. They deserve each other.
Israel has long been the brother in law who can't keep a job, stay out of fights or stop pestering you for money.
Israel's position has always been opposed to a viable, independent Palestinian State, because they greedily want all of it.
I am a Jewish American……so I want to be clear about what direction my criticism of Netanyahou and the Israeli government is coming from. That being said, I admit I have a bias to support Israel's right to exist, be free from missile attacks, terrorist attacks and kidnapping as happened to three young settlers.
But part of the problem is, and it does not justify their kidnapping and murder, was that they were settlers, …..and they were exactly where they should not have been. What kind of Israeli or Jew would settle in the West Bank and try to raise a family surrounded by a hostile indigenous population that believes you stole their land? What type of person would subject their family to such danger?
The deliberate purpose of Ariel Sharon's plan to settle the territories captured in the six day war was to crowd out any future possibility of a Palistinian State ever coming into existence. So when Netanyahou says "the gaza war proves Israel can't allow a Palestinian state, …..perhaps that is exactly the point? What came first the chicken or the egg? Who benefits from all of this? The right wingers who have always advocated against a Palestinian state, that's exactly who benefits.
Why would (whomever is launching these rockets presumably on the Palestinian side, be it Hamas or other Palestinian renegade groups, although false flags can never be ruled out either), launching these rockets not recognize that they are giving Netanyahou and his right wing war mongering cronies exactly what they want and need most?
Why would a 97 pound weakling repeatedly throw sand in the bullies face at the beach, only to get the crap kicked out of him again and again and again. I have long suspected that all is not as it appears on the surface here. This dynamic simply does not make any sense.
I said at the beginning I support Israel's right to exist, but I also support Palestines right to exist and I condemn violence in either direction. My feelings are that Israel has followed it's far right wing over the cliff and now is lying in the bed it has made for itself. How sad.
After years and years of Ariel Sharon, BeBe Netanyahou and all the other right wing assholes over there, what exactly has Israel got to show off it all these many years later?
That's what he is after, with no Palestinian state Israel can dictate its fascistic politics on Palestinians.
Israel is the creation by western "civilized" government when they were "civilized" and when they presented themselves as Neo fascism back in 1990. Bill Clinton was shouting " its a ethnic cleansing" in Balkan war, hey Bill Clinton, Israel doing exactly the same, ethnic cleansing the Palestinians in their land, where the hell are you to condemn it. Close the Democratic Party, there is not a single honest democrat running the party, the party is in the hands of right wing warmongers as Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Saudis, Qatari and AIPAC.
It is settled then. This is a civil war based on religion. If the Muslims all convert to Judaism, they would be allowed to live. If not, they will be subjected to the US version of genocide, as was dealt to the natives. Half of the Israelis are not Hebrew, but converts, yet they claim the divine right to the land of Israel. Palestinians are genetically more Hebrew than they are but are being slaughtered. Nazi Germany claimed the right to avenge a soldiers death by killing 20 innocents in the conquered area. Israel is killing 40 to 1 and still counting. Is there any end to their blood thirstiness for revenge? It is escalating. Group punishment is a violation of the Geneva Convention but the hide behind the GC any time it suits them. What shame.
“another 20 Gazas.”
Interesting choice of words. Isn't the West Bank divided up in this manner already?