{"id":2416,"date":"2009-06-15T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2009-06-15T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:31:33","slug":"israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-lays-out-conditions-for-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-lays-out-conditions-for-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Lays Out Conditions for Palestinian State"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the last couple of days you’ve no doubt seen the headlines screaming “Netanyahu Says Yes to Palestinian State”… As is all to often the case you have to wade through several paragraphs to get the substance of what Prime Minister Netanyahu said. He did not give an emphatic yes to a Palestinian State, what he did was lay out the conditions under which Israel could accept a Palestinian State.<\/p>\n

From CNSNews.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can wait a thousand years without finding a single Palestinian prepared to accept his offer, a senior Palestinian negotiator said late Sunday after Netanyahu in a policy speech laid down conditions under which Israel would accept a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

The two key conditions, the conservative prime minister said, were Palestinian recognition of Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish people; and a requirement that a future Palestinian state would be demilitarized.<\/p>\n

Acceptance of a Palestinian state is a departure for Netanyahu. Speaking at Bar Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, he made it clear that it came with red lines.<\/p>\n

On the first, Netanyahu said, refusal to recognize the Jewish people\u2019s right to a state in their historical homeland was \u201cthe root of the conflict.\u201d The \u201cpublic, binding and sincere\u201d acknowledgment by the Palestinians of that right was therefore a \u201cfundamental condition for ending the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the second condition, Netanyahu said there was broad agreement in Israel that a future Palestinian state could not be militarized.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout this condition, there is a real fear that there will be an armed Palestinian state which will become a terrorist base against Israel, as happened in Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Such a state \u2013 \u201canother Hamastan\u201d \u2013 could makes military treaties with Iran or Hezbollah and import weapons and missiles.<\/p>\n

A Palestinian state could have no army, and no control over its airspace, and effective measures would have to be put in place to prevent arms from entering, Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n

On two other key final status questions, he said Jerusalem would remain Israel\u2019s unified capital, and Palestinian refugees could not be settled within Israel\u2019s future borders. Netanyahu recalled that as the young and \u201ctiny\u201d state of Israel had absorbed \u201chundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries who were uprooted from their homes.\u201d The problem of Arab refugees could similarly be solved, he said, implying that the refugees could be accommodated in the Palestinian state and\/or neighboring Arab countries. Read the rest…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the media headlines nothing has changed… The Palestinians will never recognize Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish people and consequently they will never have an independent Palestinian.<\/p>\n

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