Netanyahu Rebuffs U.S. Calls to Start Working Toward Palestinian Statehood
Netanyahu Rebuffs U.S. Calls to Start Working Toward Palestinian Statehood
The Biden administration and the Israeli government diverge sharply over how Gaza should be governed when the war ends.
The Biden administration and the Israeli government diverge sharply over how Gaza should be governed when the war ends.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday appeared to rule out a postwar peace process that would lead to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state, rebuffing calls from the United States and others to start working toward that goal.
“In any arrangement in the foreseeable future — with an arrangement or without one — Israel must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan,” Mr. Netanyahu said at a news conference, referring to an area including occupied territory that Palestinians hope will one day become their independent state. “This clashes with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?”
The Biden administration and the Israeli government have diverged sharply over how Gaza will be governed when the fighting ends. President Biden and his top diplomat, Antony J. Blinken, have urged Israeli officials to move toward the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. Mr. Biden has suggested that a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority, which is based in the West Bank, run a post-Hamas Gaza as an interim step toward that goal.
But Israeli officials have repeatedly dismissed such calls, saying they are focused on the war in Gaza. On Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu told reporters he had rebuffed the latest exhortations.
Biden needs to publically spank bibi now or else he's lost the election.
Netanyahu needs to freaking go. He needed to go back 20 years when I was a hearing about him arguing with Arafat, and he needs to go even more now.
Netanyahu is going to wreck Joe Biden's reputation and allow Trump bank in power. US democracy is doing to die and the world might be thrown into chaos and a third world war thanks to Israël.
I'm sure Netanyahu would much rather deal with Trump. All he has to do is compliment his big, manly hands and the orange shitbird will do whatever Bibi asks.
Isn't that what the evangelicals want?
Maybe. Start the rapture and all that shit.
A third world war might be starting right now and be fully underway before the election even happens.
Shut off the weapon faucet then you dumbasses. Just once I would like the whole US government to think about how fucking stupid we look on the world stage.
How has the Israeli Berlusconi managed to hang on this long?
Populism and fearmongering, mostly.
So, conservatism then.
Same way actual Berlusconi did. He's a shithead who lets shitheads live out their shithead fantasies of being powerful shitheads just like him someday.
Also, deep connections in the political arena and control over popular media.
“This clashes with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?”
Israel's sovereignty has now been revoked. What can you do?