Netanyahu officially repudiates two-state solution

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647212

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected, a Palestinian state would not be created, in a definite disavowal of his 2009 speech, in which he had voiced support for the principle of two states for two peoples.

Netanyahu's remarks in an interview with the NRG website - which is owned by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and tied with the settler newspaper Makor Rishon - were a last-minute attempt to pull right-wing voters away from Habayit Hayehudi.

"I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel," Netanyahu said. The left has buried its head in the sand time and after time and ignores this, but we are realistic and understand."

During the interview, Netanyahu declared that if the Zionist Union were to win the elections, "it would attach itself to the international community and do they bidding," including freezing construction in West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, and cooperate with international initiatives to return Israel's borders to the 1967 lines.

He never really believed in it, but now neither he nor the US can maintain the pretense.

EU sanctions to follow if he wins?

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1. One state. Okay.

All of the Palestinian lands and all of the Palestinian people can be incorporated with completely equal political and social rights into "Israel".

Is that what Bibi wants?

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2. that's what Israel is going to become, eventually nt

[guillaumeb]

8. not exactly.

Netanyahu has been quite clear that his vision is of Israel as an explicitly Jewish state. The Palestinians are already second class citizens.

[Ken Burch]

10. In other words, it would then be fully legitimate to call Israel an "apartheid state".

And no one would have and real grounds to complain.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

11. Oh, there will always be complainers causing distractions while juggling hasbara.

And any grounds will be synthesize on the spot.

[Ken Burch]

12. I suppose we could call them "The Flying Hasbarov Brothers"

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. I prefer The Kings and Queens of hasbara.

[DanTex]

3. So now it's official that he wants a permanent apartheid state.

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4. Yes. nt

[Jefferson23]

5. Yes, if he wins the PM slot there will be EU sanctions yet that may not ever translate

into a viable state for the Palestinians. Miracles happen sometimes, and that is what
they're going to need to see that realized..imho.

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6. If he wins PM, the Palestinians and the Americans give up on talks

and everything goes through the UN.

And the US will at some point, probably shortly, be forced to stop using its veto to defend an explicitly apartheid state.

[Jefferson23]

7. As long as that resolve they write up is fair and clearly establishes a viable state..I so

do hope you're right.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. Israeli PM Netanyahu: I "stopped" Oslo peace process"

No he never believed. He just continued to hookwink others into believing he believed.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Come on, Israeli voters; kick this dangerous idiot out!