Netanyahu admits he'll never accept Palestinian state

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday that the "Bar Ilan speech," from June 2009, in which he expressed support for creating a "demilitarized Palestinian state that would recognize the Jewish state," is no longer relevant, in light of the current reality in the Middle East.

 

Netanyahu's statement was published by the Likud campaign in response to questions from journalists. The questions were submitted to the Likud campaign in the wake of a statement that appeared this weekend in a weekly Shabbat pamphlet that contained the stances of each political party on creating a Palestinian state.

 

"The Prime Minister announced that the Bar-Ilan speech is null and void," read the message in the pamphlet, continuing, "Netanyahu's entire political biography is a fight against the creation of a Palestinian state."

 

Following the publication, Likud clarified on Sunday that the statement was written by Tzipi Hotovely, who was expressing her personal opinion, and not the party's stance on the issue.

 

Later on Sunday, however, following additional questions from journalists about the statement, as well as recent revelations of concessions that Netanyahu apparently made during negotiations with the Palestinians, the Likud election campaign published a statement that was very similar to the one made by Hotovely in the Shabbat pamphlet.

 

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that [in light of] the situation that has arisen in the Middle East, any evacuated territory would fall into the hands of Islamic extremism and terror organizations supported by Iran. Therefore, there will be no concessions or withdrawals; they are simply irrelevant."

 

Later on Sunday, the Prime Minister's Office said in response that Netanyahu made no comment to that effect. "Prime Minister Netanyahu has made clear for years that given the current conditions in the Middle East, any territory that is given will be seized by the radical Islam just like what happened Gaza and in southern Lebanon," the PMO said in a statement, adding that such a scenario is particularly likely "in a reality in which the Palestinian Authority is in an alliance with the Hamas terrorist organization."

 

On January 6, Netanyahu commented on the Bar-Ilan speech in an interview with Amit Segal and Yonit Levi on Channel 2. Netanyahu said then that the Bar-Ilan speech was still relevant, "but that the Palestinians have emptied it of any relevance," by pursuing unilateral action in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. "The conditions that they currently want make it simply irrelevant," said Netanyahu then, adding, "there is no partner for peace."

 

During the 2009 election campaign, and after he was elected in April that year, Netanyahu said that he supported "economic peace," but did not express support for creating a Palestinian state.

 

Following significant pressure from the United States, however, two months after the election, in June 2009, Netanyahu changed his long-held position and expressed support for creating a demilitarized Palestinian state, on the condition that it would recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.645912

[Luc 4,776]

I am so hoping he doesn't win elections. He's disgusting. The illegal settlements are not okay. It is however true that any land given away would probably get in the hands of radical Islam, though.

[Pandemiya 61]

Sigh, another anti-Israel propaganda thread from you. The word palestine is translated from the Hebrew verb "peleshtem" which means invader. The first people called that were Cretan invaders that were repelled into Israel after a failed invasion in Egypt after being defeated by Pharaoh Ramose III. The Israelis called them philstines. Because they were invaders. These people were all killed off during their violent attempt at invading Israel. Many years later, Roman king Hadrian renamed Israel to the name of their greatest enemy to wipe the trace of the Jews off the Earth: Philstina. Translated into Latin as Pælestina. Then to English as Palestine. nearly 2 thousand years later, Jewish pioneers purchased back the land of Israel (called Palestine at the time by everyone) around 1808. They harvested the swampy lands into flourishing farms. Nearby arabs heard of the flourishing farms, so they immigrated to the area for economic opportunities. That is how arabs got there. The "Al-Aqsa" Mosque in jerusalem, was first a Christian church built by the Byzantine Empire. When Omar Caliph seized Israel under a successful invasion in 702 (arab conquest), he reconstructed the church to look like a mosque, and renamed it "al-aqsa" or furthest mosque. This was 80 years after Muhammed died. How could he have made a journey to heaven from the al-aqsa mosque in Jerusalem if he 1. never stepped foot in Jerusalem in his lifetime and 2. wasn't even alive when it was turned into a mosque? Omar Caliph renamed the church to that to make it seem like it was the one where Muhammed ascended into heaven, but that is actually a lie. Palestine is a lie, and it shouldn't be a country. The immigrants that came there tried to go back to their native countries, Transjordan and Egypt. The countries refused to take them back, as soon as Israel was created, for them to stay in Israel and be a major problem for the Jews (which is what happened). When the immigrants' descendents tried to go back to their native countries, the people of their countries MASSACRED all of them! This event is known as Black September. Why don't you ever mention anything about what I just said in any of your threads? You want to fight with ignorance and arrogance, while I want to fight with intelligence and truth. Why is it that Palestine was never marked on any map before the creation of Israel in 1948? Tell me please, Mrs. Lego.

Palestine is a fake 'state' created by the Arabs to steal the Jews' land, yet again.

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