As another posted article today pointed out, Bibi has to duck and weave. What makes for election winning statements will not work as policy. He’ll do or say whatever is necessary. But does he believe in a two state solution? I think he’d be crazy to believe in it. Support the two state solution with public statements? Yes. It’s a necessary fiction given Israel’s position in the world and the world’s various liberal fantasies. It won’t happen on his watch though. He was correct that any land given over to the Palestinians will be a new base from which to attack Israel.
Of course Netanyahu bekieves in a Two-State Solution!
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I turn to you, our Palestinian neighbors, led by the Palestinian Authority, and I say: Let’s begin negotiations immediately without preconditions.
Israel is obligated by its international commitments and expects all parties to keep their commitments. We want to live with you in peace, as good neighbors. We want our children and your children to never again experience war: that parents, brothers and sisters will never again know the agony of losing loved ones in battle; that our children will be able to dream of a better future and realize that dream; and that together we will invest our energies in plowshares and pruning hooks, not swords and spears.
I know the face of war. I have experienced battle. I lost close friends, I lost a brother. I have seen the pain of bereaved families. I do not want war. No one in Israel wants war.
If we join hands and work together for peace, there is no limit to the development and prosperity we can achieve for our two peoples - in the economy, agriculture, trade, tourism and education - most importantly, in providing our youth a better world in which to live, a life full of tranquility, creativity, opportunity and hope.
Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University [Relates to Netanyahu’s Re-election]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270248/posts
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What is the alternative to a Two-State Solution ... it’s the solution that many Islamic Terrroists want and that many MISGUIDED enthusiasts for Israel say that they want ... that’s the ONE-STATE SOLUTION where Israel takes over all the land and annexes it into Israel Proper.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says (in recent days, plus in the past) that he is AGAINST a ONE-STATE SOLUTION. The reason why, of course, is that this would make Israel an ARAB STATE instead of a Jewish State. It’s also referred to as a BI-NATIONAL STATE.
So whenever you hear a ONE-STATE SOLUTION, or a BI-NATIONAL STATE or Israel takes over all the land and annexes it into Israel proper — you’re dealing with an ENEMY OF ISRAEL who wants the DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL!
Netanyahu doesn’t want the destruction of Israel and so that’s why Netanyahu is AGAINST a ONE-STATE SOLUTION and is FOR a TWO-STATE SOLUTION. It’s the only solution that will allow the continuation of Israel as the HOMELAND FOR THE JEWS and the preservation of the state as a JEWISH STATE!
You referred to another article ... “What makes for election winning statements will not work as policy.”
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I do believe I posted that and referred exactly to that. And yes, “campaign slogans” are NOT official FOREIGN POLICY. Official Foreign Policy for Netanyahu is his Bar-Ilan speech.
How the government under Netanyahu is going to act is according to official Foreign Policy and not according to campaign slogans!
And, as I also pointed out, those to the right of Netanyahu and in the Nationalist group in Israel are TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE in sniping at Netanyahu and doing their own “campaign speeches” when they are not in the position of Netanyahu in governing Israel.