After Elections, Netanyahu Loyalist Says Israel ‘Delighted’ to Renew Palestinian Talks [Israel]
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Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) said yesterday in an interview that the new government is willing to return to the negotiation table with the Palestinians.
“We would be delighted to renew the negotiations,” Hanegbi said in an interview with the Israel Project. “We believe it is in the interest of both people– the Israeli and the Palestinian– to have a dialogue; to discuss our disputes; to try and find [a] common denominator in the issues that are so crucial to both people.”
Hanegbi, a Netanyahu loyalist, also said that the new government will begin an intense effort to renew the trust between the United States and Israel.
“We will make an effort, a very, very intimate and intense effort to renew the trust between the governments,” said the deputy foreign minister. “It is essential for the security of Israel. It is essential for the survival of the state of Israel.”
Hanegbi’s words are significant in light of Netanyahu’s vocal opposition this week to the establishment of a Palestinian state. The hostility of the Obama Administration towards Netanyahu was also widely reported in the weeks leading up the Israeli election.
1. There are 400,000,000 million Moslems living in 15 Moslem countries in the Middle East. None of them enjoy the benefits of democracy. Tens of millions of them suffer from the barbaric cruelty of brutal and repressive Islamic regimes. 200,000,000 of these people are women who suffer from the fundamental limitations and restrictions that their religion imposes on them together with endemic abuse and systematic discrimination. Millions of Christians who live in these countries are living with terrible oppression and danger.
2. Less than 2 million Moslems live in Yehuda and Shomron. 97% of them already live under the PA regime. Only 3% live under Israeli control.
3. On every occasion in which a Middle East / Moslem territory has been vacated in the last few decades, the vacated area has fallen under the control of terrorists. It happened in Sinai, Lebanon, Gaza, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Two of these areas - South Lebanon and Gaza are already controlled by Hizbolla and Hamas - both terrorist organizations whose objective is aimed that the destruction of Israel. Together with this Hamas already make up the majority of the Moslem population in the area that “they” want Israel to vacate.
Against this background there is something madly misguided and wildly irresponsible in the obsessive demand that Israel should withdraw from territories that are strategically crucial to Israel’s security when everyone knows that any vacated areas would fall under the control of terrorists. There is no possibility that such a withdrawal could result in “peace”. It can only result in more hostility and war. Any yet the demands continue under the heading of a “peace” process.
Apparently the Arabs don’t believe Netanyahu’s campaign promise ...
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Netanyahu remarks on Palestinian state ‘electioneering’: Arabi
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The Arab League chief dismissed Wednesday as electioneering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to rule out a Palestinian state if reelected, saying there would be global pressure for a peace deal.
Netanyahu, whose Likud party won 30 seats in the 120-member parliament in Tuesday’s vote, had pledged to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and block creation of a Palestinian state if reelected.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi put the premier’s statements down to “electioneering”.
“I believe personally that he made that statement about... no two states to gain the votes of the extremists, particularly those Russian immigrants who went to Israel in the last 10, 15 years,” Arabi said.
Netanyahu, when asked by an Israeli interviewer if he would not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, had responded: “Indeed.”
But Arabi said he expected stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which broke down last year amid mutual recriminations, to resume after the next Israeli government is formed.