Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly disavowed support for a two-state solution, and promised that if reelected he would build tens of thousands of new settlement homes to ensure Palestine could never be independent.
The hawkish shift appeared to pay off, and got Netanyahu a strong plurality. With continued rule all but assured, he’s trying to press the rewind button on his campaigning, today declaring that he’s once again super in favor of a two-state solution.
Netanyahu appears to be trying to tamp down a US backlash against him for disavowing any peace deal, but simultaneously seems to think no one outside of Israel really heard what he said, trying to insist in interviews that he’s always been in favor of Palestinian statehood, and that he’s America’s greatest ally.
Netanyahu has a long history of being able to have his cake and eat it too, but his overt confrontation of the US means that it’s going to be difficult for him to take back the last week.
Amazing, absolutely amazing.
netenyahoo starting to spin his web of lies.
What's the Hebrew word for LIAR? Hell, I'd at least have given him credit for sticking to his 'no Palestine' stand, but now he's just outed himself AGAIN as nothing more than a lying, pandering politician. I'll take an honest enemy over a untrustworthy 'friend' any day of the week.
The control America as they did to Europe
A two bit third world liar making a fool of the American President and the citizens America.
"…declaring that he’s once again super in favor of a two-state solution."
No, that is not what he said in the interview with the resident NBC Israel Firster. He said that he could support a 2-state solution…here it comes…"under certain circumstances!!"…and of course those "certain circumstances" are not going to be acceptable to the Palestinians, as intended. The failure then becomes a fault of the Palestinians.
It's pure BS – and it's not going to change with this bozo.
Exactly. Netanyahu has to appear to be willing to talk about peace, but he has no intention of ever proposing a deal the Palestinians could accept. This has been Israel's strategy for decades, talking about peace while building facts on the ground that make a genuine "two state solution" impossible.
If Netanyahu will not propose a solution acceptable to the Palestinians, the US and UN will do it for him. Israel was created by the UN with the stroke of a pen, so too can Palestine be created with the stroke of a pen.
Will some Israeli citizen sue Netanyahu for skulduggery?
I don't think we can rely on the Israeli citizens anymore – they all seem to have taken the blue pill to the far-right netherworld.