TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the prospect of Palestinian statehood after the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, and vowed to resist the US on the matter.
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He also denied blindsiding his defense minister over a deal to send medicines into Gaza for Israeli captives, accused Israeli media of spreading pessimism about the progress of the war, and said
Hamas and Iran were hoping to see his government fall and elections held mid-war.
On the issue of Palestinian sovereignty, Netanyahu was speaking after a report on Wednesday that the Biden administration is looking past the premier to advance a two-state solution, and hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state.
“Whoever is talking about the ‘day after Netanyahu’,” he said, “is essentially talking about the
establishment of a Palestinian state with the Palestinian Authority," he said during a press conference on Thursday.
The decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he declared during the primetime appearance at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, are “not about the absence of a state, a Palestinian state, but rather about the existence of a state, a Jewish state, Hebrew media reported.
“All territory we evacuate, we get terror, terrible terror against us,” he said, citing Gaza, southern Lebanon and parts of what he called Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Therefore, “in any future arrangement, or in the absence of an arrangement,” he said, Israel must maintain “security control” of all territory west of the Jordan River — meaning, Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza. “That is a vital condition.”
Most Israeli citizens are opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, he said, and he would always resist it.
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