Posted on 03/19/2015 10:38:59 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Days after vowing not to establish a Palestinian state, Netanyahu says something else in his first post-election interview.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has retracted his pre-election statements, according to which he would not allow a Palestinian state to be established.
"I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution," Netanyahu said Thursday in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. "I haven't changed my policy."
Netanyahu said his earlier comments were a reflection of changing conditions on the Palestinian side, pointing to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's pact to form a unity government with Hamas, which Israel, the U.S. and most European countries consider a terrorist organization.
"I'm talking about what is achievable and what is not achievable," Netanyahu said Thursday, insisting that he would support a demilitarized Palestinian state under a plan that would ensure Israel's security.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
This explains Netanyahu’s position much better and also explains he has not backed away from his Bar-Ilan speech.
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PM still wants ‘a peaceful two-state solution’
“I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution,” Prime Minister Netanyahu tells MSNBC in an interview after the elections.
Trying to clarify his position after the White House said it would draw its own conclusions from his comments on Election Day, in which he ruled out the establishment of a Palestinian state if re-elected, Netanyahu says, “I haven’t changed my policy. I never retracted my speech in Bar-Ilan University calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes a Jewish state.”
Netanyahu explains that circumstances have changed since the Bar-Ilan speech was made in 2009.
Walking back pre-vote pitch, PM says he is not a one-stater
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I always knew Netanyahu would stick to his long-standing policy, going back years and years.
He wants a peaceful, sustainable two-state solution, which is just like saying it will never happen.
I thought the left loved “evolving views.”
Israel needs a physical border with the psychopathic Palestinians. The other side of the Jordan river—they can conquer part of Jordan if they need to (that other phony country). Most Palestinians are inherited problems from Jordan’s ignored atrocities anyway.
It’s taken 20 years up to now, but you’re going to see it sooner or later, and they are going to negotiations again.
Now, I’ll make a prediction here ... if there is not a common agreement between the two parties, a Palestinian State will be imposed from the outside. Netanyahu and Israel knows this, so they’re going to try and get all that they can through an agreement that they make, themselves.
IOW, Netanyahu is no longer beholden to or compliant with the wishes of Obama.
But the Israeli 'news' media is.
The Israelis who voted for Netanyahu because they don’t want a two state solution could not be amused, I’d imagine.
No change. Bibi will accept a Palestinian state if they agree to israel’s right to exist and security concerns are addressed. If not he is opposed.
I think Netanyahu realizes there’s no more chance of a peaceful Arab state on it’s border today, than there was in 1948.
Yes, I’m referring to the West Bank and Gaza.
Sure he’ll talk, but those talks will go nowhere. It won’t be his fault either.
He could give the Arabs almost anything they want, but since he won’t march his own people into the Mediterranean, the Arabs will never be happy.
Bibi knows this. There will be no agreement for duel nation status.
But woe unto him that doth impose it.
I’m sure that he would want a two-state solution if it meant that the Palis would stop sending bombers into Israel,
but, since it won’t, there’s no use “wanting” it.
It’s part of the endless canard, wink, wink. There will be no 2 state solution, just talk of one.
Is there a way—some subtle gesture perhaps—that Israeli citizens look for to determine just when Netanyahu is actually telling the truth?
Netanyahu's last-minute surge was not at the expense of the left so much as it was at the expense of the smaller, hard-right parties (Jewish Home and Yisrael Beitenu), and that was a result of his "no 2 states" pledge.
When he says he wants to be PM.
As I understood, he didn’t flip flip, the media was lying about what he said so it look like he changed his view
I think you're right. Netanyahu also realizes that it is much more likely that a Palestinian State will be imposed from the outside if Israel does not look like they're at least trying to negotiate with the Palestinians. So, he pretty much had to walk his election day comments back, lest they be used as pretext for imposing a Palestinian State without Israel having any say.
Except this "wink, wink" stuff has grown wearisome to Western nations. If I were a betting person, I'd bet on a two-state solution certified the UN by the end of Obama's term.
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