The U.S. is fully aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of the creation of a Palestinian state along with his plans to extend Israeli law to West Bank settlements, the Israeli premier said on Monday.
In an interview with Channel 12, Netanyahu pushed back against his main challenger Benny Gantz’s claims that his vow to annex the West Bank was nothing more than an empty campaign promise.
Netanyahu over the weekend historically declared that he fully intends to extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank. The incumbent prime minister also said he had told President Donald Trump that would not evacuate “a single person” from the 400,000 or so Jews residing in the West Bank.
Gantz on Sunday said Netanyahu’s statement was “meaningless” and no more than a last-minute bid for Likud to gain the upper hand over Gantz’s Blue and White party.
Netanyahu, however, countered that such radical moves did not happen overnight.
“Why did it take two years to get recognition of the Golan Heights even with such a friendly president? These things takes time,” said Netanyahu in reference to Trump’s presidential order last month recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Netanyahu said annexation of the West Bank would happen in three stages and he hoped to do it with “full American support.”
“I discussed [annexation] with representatives of President Trump and I expressed my belief that there is no other option, I think it is also the right move,” he said.
“I want to do it gradually. If possible, I want to do it with full American support,” the prime minister added.
“It is going to happen,” he stated. “This isn’t something I invented for the elections.”
“I was under incredible pressure from the Obama administration — that no prime minister has ever had — to cease construction in the [West Bank] … and yet I withstood them and we continued building and now we will continue,” he said.
Netanyahu also told Army Radio that the Palestinians would not have a state or security control.
“There will be no Palestinian state,” he said, “not like the one people are talking about. It won’t happen.”
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It is common among the tribes of Abraham, that they fight each other and ethnic clean their own brothers based on biblical superstition. Got pushed under slavery of Pharaoh, or Caeser or fuhrer is their own mistake. And there was nothing called Palestine as promised Land for Israel. Anywhere in the world we dig we can find a Magen star or menorah…. So keeping these protected means their grand children will raid you anytime and claim your house and yards as their promised.
UN need to improve the status of ‘State of Palestine’ and ensure the freedom of Palestine and rights for People of Palestine.
This election agenda is an eye opener about the illegal Zionist Agendas to ethnically cleanse the People of Palestine. Along with the current worst situation about the refugees and human rights, Israel will further create wave of human rights violations and refugees.
After the Kingdom of Solomon got divided into Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judea, the King of Israel started suppress the Kingdom of Judea and made them as slaves and refugees under Egyptians, Greek, Romans and Germans and titled them as Palestine and still the status is continues as it is.
If Israelis have rights to have a country, People of Palestine should have a country too and the name of their country is the basic right of their choice