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Related: About this forumNaftali Bennett interview: 'There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel'
Source: The Guardian
Naftali Bennett interview: 'There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel'
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 January 2013 16.43 GMT
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "insoluble" and most Israelis "couldn't care less about it any more", according to Naftali Bennett, the surprise star of the election campaign, whose extreme rightwing nationalist and pro-settler Jewish Home is within sight of becoming the country's second biggest party.
In an interview with the Guardian, Bennett said he did not intend to waste the next four years "babbling about Israel and the Palestinians", and defended his plan to annex most of the West Bank in the face of international opposition, which was the "result of ignorance".
"There is not going to be a Palestinian state within the tiny land of Israel," he said, referring to the area from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean. "It's just not going to happen. A Palestinian state would be a disaster for the next 200 years."
Bennett acknowledged that Binyamin Netanyahu was almost certain to continue as prime minister following the election on 22 January, but added: "The big question is the question of power. If we get enough seats in the next Knesset [parliament], we'll become the biggest and most influential partner in Netanyahu's next government."
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Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 January 2013 16.43 GMT
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "insoluble" and most Israelis "couldn't care less about it any more", according to Naftali Bennett, the surprise star of the election campaign, whose extreme rightwing nationalist and pro-settler Jewish Home is within sight of becoming the country's second biggest party.
In an interview with the Guardian, Bennett said he did not intend to waste the next four years "babbling about Israel and the Palestinians", and defended his plan to annex most of the West Bank in the face of international opposition, which was the "result of ignorance".
"There is not going to be a Palestinian state within the tiny land of Israel," he said, referring to the area from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean. "It's just not going to happen. A Palestinian state would be a disaster for the next 200 years."
Bennett acknowledged that Binyamin Netanyahu was almost certain to continue as prime minister following the election on 22 January, but added: "The big question is the question of power. If we get enough seats in the next Knesset [parliament], we'll become the biggest and most influential partner in Netanyahu's next government."
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Naftali Bennett interview: 'There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel' (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2013
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)1. It's really quite simple. They just have to do
something with all those troublesome Palestinians.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)2. The Palestinian Question of the new millennium
replaces the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question from the previous. Probably the same shitty results will happen.
If this party gets any real power then its goodbye Palestine, and history repeats itself.
Solindsey
(115 posts)4. I get Chills.
They wouldn't dare... or would they? With crazies like this Bennett person, I really wonder.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)3. So Israel's two biggest political parties will be...
Authoritarian right-wing Likud-Beitinu...
and
Nationalist far-right Jewish Home?
With input from...
Theocratic far-right Shas and Fascist-Nationalist ultra-right Strength to Israel
Behold! Zionist progressivism; Where there is progressively more Zionism, and the situation progressively worsens!