As Netanyahu has said (just recently) ... “peace is nice” ... but that’s not the FIRST PRIORITY for Israel. “Keeping the Palestinians out of Israel” is the FIRST PRIORITY.
If “peace happens” that will be nice - but it’s not essential. It’s the “First Priority” which is essential.
See the following ...
PM Netanyahu addresses Institute for National Security Studies 29-May-2012
http://www.facebook.com/GW.IFA/posts/425731987458529
GWIFA: People would do well to TAKE NOTE of the official policy position of Israel (and P.M. Netanyahu) towards creating a Palestinian State.
Quote from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
I would like to speak about the goals of peace, the manner in which to attain it, and above all, the conditions necessary to uphold it.
A PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE PALESTINIANS IS NECESSARY FIRST AND FOREMOST TO PREVENT A BI-NATIONAL STATE.
It is preferable to live in peace. PEACE IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER SITUATION, BUT WE NEED TO PREVENT A BI-NATIONAL STATE, as well as strengthen the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic country.
[GWIFA says here: PLEASE NOTE ... that the FIRST PRIORITY is NOT “peace” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. The FIRST PRIORITY is to PREVENT a BI-NATIONAL STATE ... namely to PREVENT a state where Israel annexes all that territory, and Israel becomes a “bi-national state” - which is a state divided between two nationalities - and thus ends up in the DESTRUCTION of the nation of Israel as the “homeland for the Jews”.
NOTE AGAIN - the FIRST PRIORITY - is NOT PEACE. This is a mistaken impression that a lot of people have with what Israel is doing in creating a Palestinian State!]
We do not want to rule over the Palestinians, NOR DO WE WANT THE PALESTINIANS TO BE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
That is why THREE TIMES - in my speech at Bar-Ilan, in my speech in the Knesset and later in my speech at the American Congress - I DECLARED THAT I SUPPORT AND WELCOME PEACE BETWEEN TWO NATION-STATES - A DEMILITARIZED PALESTINIAN STATE that recognizes the Jewish state, and Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.
And I disagree totally with Bibi. A bi-national state is better than a two-state solution. Annex, and give Palis the option of Israeli citizenship, just as they already have that option in Jerusalem. Most will, as a matter of Arab pride, refuse to apply for citizenship. Those that do will not threaten to form an electoral majority. A two-state solution, however, will mean a militarized Pali state no matter what, dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Israel is already a multinational state, including within its boundaries Kurds, Armenians, Druze, and Samaritans, as well as Christian and Muslim Arabs. Jews are in the majority. But it’s delusional to think that a bi-national state can be avoided. It’s already much more complicated than that, and the other nationalities depend on Israel to keep the Sunni and Shiite Muslims from destroying them.