Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he’s “proud” of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.
“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestinian state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza,” Netanyahu said.
The Israeli leader has come under intense domestic criticism due to his strategy of helping prop up Hamas in Gaza to prevent a Palestinian state and the intelligence failure that allowed the October 7 attack on southern Israel to happen. In the face of the pressure, Netanyahu has reportedly pitched himself to fellow Likud party members as the only one who can prevent a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu also said he would “not let the State of Israel go back to the fateful mistake of Oslo,” referring to the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which established the Palestinian Authority (PA) and were meant to pave the way to a lasting peace deal.
The comments from Netanyahu come as Biden administration officials continue to insist a two-state solution must be reached after the Gaza war despite clear opposition among Israeli officials. Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, told Sky News last week that there was “absolutely no” chance of a two-state solution.
The Biden administration has said it wants the PA to take over Gaza, an idea Netanyahu has outright rejected. The PA is also extremely unpopular among Palestinians, as a recent poll found nearly 90% of Palestinians want PA President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.
Rot in hell you’re worse than Hitler!
Nazi Germany does holocaust = evil evil evil
Israel does holocaust = good good good
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We absolutely need a true, free, fair Palestinian State. One that can sign its own treaties and so forth. One that can utilize the help of other countries who support a two state solution and also offer protection and self defense.
The state of Palestine has signed at least two treaties that I know of — the one making it a party state to the International Criminal Court, and the one making it a member state of Interpol. I assume it’s also signed on to the UN Charter since it’s a UN observer member state.
Well, while true, this doesn’t say anything about Palestinian rights as humans, does it, given that the UN is run out of New York when it comes to any Palestinian state.
Carter’s and Clinton’s efforts are just roadkill along Washington’s and Israeli’s highway, paved by the MIC.
“while true, this doesn’t say anything about Palestinian rights as humans, does it’
No, it doesn’t.
Nor does any other state’s status relative to the UN seem to say anything about the human rights of those it claims as citizens.
The existence and operations of the UN have not altered the relationships of power. In fact, they’ve codified those relationships in supposedly permanent form in a number of ways, among them giving five regimes veto power over “security” matters.
Basically the UN is structured to maintain the same set of power relations as existed at the end of World War 2.
But whenever anyone says Palestinians don’t have a “state,” it seems reasonable to me to point out that the state of Palestine exists, is recognized by the majority of most other states, and maintains particular relations to international institutions. Not because I believe that that fact is especially helpful to the Palestinians, but because it’s a fact.
Not true. Palestinians have no state, they are living on occupied territory.
UN recognizes many native populations. This does not make them a state.
The state of Palestine says it exists.
The UN says the state of Palestine exists.
139 other states say the state of Palestine exists.
Who should I believe on the question of whether or not the state of Palestine exists? You, or the state of Palestine, the UN, and 139 other states?
That recognition is only worth as much as Chamberlain’s piece of paper from Chancellor Hitler.
The problem is that Palestine is not recognized as a state by its neighbor. And here I’m speaking not of documents which I have found to be of next to no value in the international arena, but rather of rights which are enforceable in the real world by the international community.
I stopped taking the UN seriously more than 40 years ago. Some of its departments dedicated to aid and assistance are of real value, but as a vehicle which purports to be a political instrument of the international community, the UN has long since ceased to be anything more than a joke.
I agree with your last sentence with the proviso that facts are often of little to no relevance as well.
You. do know how irrelevant this is. There is no state, UN representation is symbolic.
The key remains that Palestinian population under occupation has no right to defend itself. Is subject to arbitrary justice.
There is a whole body of international legislation on the duties of an occupying force. I am not aware of any one of these rules that Israel has ever implemented.
The debate on their legal status of Palestinians is not serious. First step should be restoring Palestinian status to the status of occupied population, and Israel rectifying the problems created on the ground as a result of numerous violations of occypied territory status.
Nobody can answer today a very basic question — what is the status of Palestinians under Israeli occupation and full custodial control? Who is responsible for their security? This problem is certainly not a new one.
Palestinian UN presence and signing any treaties just makes the whole situation look more macabre.
I agree, Palestinians need their own nation. The question is how to implement it. They actually may need two Palestinians states. One for Gaza and one in the West Bank. Now the question become where to put it. Israel is not going back to the 1948 or 1967 lines. Until the location problem is solved there will be no Palestinian state.
“Israel is not going back to the 1948” plan. Why not? The Palestinians managed before the Zionists arrived, to get along with Jews, Christians and people of other religions. It is the Zionists who cannot get along with Christians, as evidenced the dwindling Christian population of Israel, and certainly not the Palestinians whom they have been ethnically cleansing from Palestine since 1947/8.
Why not? That plan died when the Arabs armies invaded the new nation of Israel and than lost the war. Regardless of what you think of Israel a Palestinians nation has to be based on reality, not some dream to turn back the hands of time.
The next time muslim nations invade, daddy war bucks won’t be able to save them.
Effective, as of now. I will be demanding that the US government, withdraw and further monies for your state. I will further request that we extend such monies to Palestine, to compensate for their pain and suffering. You drew the sword Israel and if you are not careful, you may yet feel it’s wrath…
You got zero chance of getting your demands.
Mostly because Washington DC is infested with traitors who place the whims of a foreign country above the needs of the people who elected them https://candidates.aipacpac.org/page/featured/.
Does it really matter who a land really belongs to in this day and age? There are something around eight billion people on the planet now with many people all over having no place to go and no home. The rising level of carbon dioxide in the air is making chances for human survival on this planet into the next century questionable. Given the greater issues threatening humankind, it would really make more sense to show some love, compassion, and share.
Political Zionism has destroyed the ideals of Israel.
What feeds the frenzy in Israel are the landless mendicant dwellers of Crown Heights and Borough Park who have been conned into believing that they only need to reclaim their rightful inheritance in Israel and all their travails will be righted. Once tricked into believing this, they of course do not want to let go of their bone.
Since he is so proud of that, can his supporters finally stop saying that the Palestinians turned down many chances to have a state?
No. They lie. It does not matter to them that they contradict their own lies. They expect us to bow down and just accept it.
Agreed. Another question along the same line, “can his supporters finally stop saying” that genociding and ethnic cleansing Palestinians over the past 75 years was a “PEACE PROCESS?”
If there was a remote possibility of doubt as to the mental position of most Israelis it has been made perfectly clear from the mouth of this elected official they are in fact “the children of Hitler”. Now if in fact there is no light between America and Israel that makes us “ the Nazi military weapons manufacturing industrial complex “.
Israel routinely arrests Palestinians in the middle of the night and “disappears” them in their jail system. This has happened for over 70 years, but the world just turns a blind eye and yawns. Hamas goes into Israel to get hostages to help release these people and the world has a crap storm! Israel killed almost ALL the people on October 7, even if you argue that the Hamas “invasion” triggered a “justified” response. If you think that standing down the military so Hamas could get hostages to be killed by the IDF to bolster the Israeli death toll, you aren’t far from the truth!
“Hamas goes into Israel to get hostages to help release these people” Do you really think that that was the primary purpose of the raid? What a great plan, let get hostages to get 5000 Palestinians out of jail. What could go wrong? What is the chance of Israel retaliation killing 20,000 Palestinians and destroying or damaging half the houses in Gaza?
They don’t call him, “Satan-yahu,” for nothing.
Classic hypocrite with double standards on the them of rules for thee but not for me. He should be in prison for so many crimes!
America works obsquiously and slavenly with an entity that practically from the time of Rabin’s murder has worked against 2 state solution ,has imposed aparthied while taking full advanatge of Oslo– normlaization of relation with global south and with a few Arab countries and always lamenting often through the multiple orfices on the tentacles of the hydra that it is , in US,UK,Germany and increasingly in propagandized 3 rd world countires that Israel has no partner in peace .
Lies typify each and every aspect of current Israeli and pre-state Israeli behvaiors .
In your face, America! Let us all see who is the boss. His enablers here are beyond estatic. Slighly nervous, but ecstatic.
Time for the gallows, Bibi.
Before all the world he spits in the face of the Biden and Blinken, … and they thank him for it and give him more money. The perfect tableau of the disgusting debasement of the Western ruling class.
“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestinian state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza,” Netanyahu said.
Sure. If you consider a concentration camp that is on a “calorie count” and can put up with an annual “mowing of the grass”, then by all means, let’s call that a state.
The man is damaged beyond any sort of redemption. He and his gang all belong in prison.
If it were up to me, the Israeli state would be put under temporary control of UN forces until the inhabitants can learn to behave like humans again, and the entire population of settlers and their parents returned to the original countries of their parents.
It’s a good idea. I’d rather we take the ’80s South African Apartheid approach and see the international community shun trade & diplomatic contact with the ASI until the sensible among the regular Israeli population (which I believe to be ‘the overwhelming majority’) takes back their democracy and their national morality.
Hopefully in the (near) future conditions and circumstances will change, and this arrogant “Nutty-yahoo” chauvinistic, deceitful butcher and warmonger and his ilk will be held accountable very appropriately in front of the entire human species.