Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has unanimously approved a measure declaring its “total rejection” of attempts by foreign powers to establish a Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the move at the beginning of a cabinet meeting Sunday morning. This comes as various forces in the United Nations and even President Biden’s administration are pressuring Israel to accept a two-state solution after its war with Hamas in Gaza.
“Given the recent discussion heard in the international community about attempts to unilaterally impose a Palestinian state on Israel, I am today taking a declaratory decision seeking government recognition on this issue. This decision will be widely accepted. I am sure,” Prime Minister Netanyahu told his cabinet members in Hebrew.
“Israel completely rejects the international mandate for a durable settlement with the Palestinian people,” the declaration reads. “Such an arrangement would only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions. Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition would be a reward for terrorism, and nothing else would hinder a future peace settlement. ”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday, January 18, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (GPO/Reuters)
The statement echoes a message Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered privately to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week, telling Biden administration officials that any direct or even indirect recognition would be “on October 7th.” It will be a compliment to those who planned and orchestrated this massacre.”
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Biden and other U.S. officials have repeatedly said Israel’s war against Hamas should end with a two-state solution and have hinted at the possibility of the U.S. recognizing a Palestinian state.
President Biden has repeatedly called for an end to Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip with a two-state solution for the Palestinian people. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Over the past 75 years, Israel has made repeated efforts to negotiate a peace deal or a two-state solution with Palestinian and Arab leaders, but none of the proposals have been successful. was denied, This includes the original UN Partition Plan of 1947, which led to the creation of the state of Israel, and Israel’s proposals in 2000 and 2008 to recognize a Palestinian state.
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“I do not believe a two-state solution is possible, and even if it were, I would not recommend it. For more than 50 years, hundreds of self-styled ‘pacifists’, led by the US, have tried to put pressure on Israel. ” and lead the Palestinians to a two-state solution,” former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told Fox News Digital last month.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amos Ben Gershom (GPO)/Anadolu, via Getty Images)
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“Efforts have repeatedly failed, no matter who is in charge, and the reasons are profound and abiding: 1) Palestinians accept a Jewish state,” said Friedman, who served as U.S. ambassador under former President Trump. 2) They are unlikely to accept a Jewish state.” The probability of the Palestinian state becoming a terrorist state is very high and poses an existential threat to Israel, and he 3) West Bank (which Bible believers call Judea and Samaria) is Biblical Israel, and without Israel’s control, hundreds of Jewish and Christian holy sites would be destroyed. ”
Fox News’ Yael Rotem-Kuriel, Yonat Friling and Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.
