Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against international pressure for a Palestinian state, calling it an act of “suicide.” Despite strong criticism from the U.N. and others, Israel announced a large housing project for Jewish residents of the West Bank.
Netanyahu offered a history lesson Thursday on why the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians is a deadly mistake. He noted, “Before World War II, the Western countries tried to appease Hitler…”
“Well, today the West is telling Israel, ‘Just give the Palestinians a piece of Israel and they’ll make peace with you.’ No, they won’t. For the last century, they’ve been offered a state of their own. And they refused, because their goal is not to create a state for themselves, it’s to destroy the state of ours, the Jewish state. That’s their national goal. So we’re not going to – we’re not going to commit national suicide.”
