Netanyahu: Gaza conflict proves Israel can’t relinquish control of West Bank

[azurnoir]

Source: ToI

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday vowed to fight Hamas and other Gaza terror groups until Israel was safe from the threat of missile attack, and then launched a highly unusual and extremely bitter verbal assault on would-be peace-brokers, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, who have been urging Israel to relinquish security control of the West Bank to a Palestinian state.

Speaking to the Israeli public on the fourth day of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, which he said has seen Israel attack “over 1,000? terror targets while sustaining hundreds of rocket attacks from Gaza, Netanyahu vowed that the IDF campaign “will continue until we are sure that Israel’s residents have quiet.” He said that no terrorist target was off-limits, and accused Hamas’s leaders and gunmen of “hiding behind Gaza’s residents” — using them as human shields — and thus being responsible “for any harm that comes to them.”

Amid the current conflict, he elaborated, “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan” — a reference to the Jordan Valley and the West Bank — as Kerry had urged during a US-led peace effort that collapsed in April.

Citing by name both Kerry and the US security adviser Gen. John Allen, who was charged by the secretary of state to draw up security proposals that the US argued could enable Israel to withdraw from most of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, Netanyahu said passionately, “I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert: We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gaza-conflict-proves-israel-cant-relinquish-control-of-west-bank/

[geek tragedy]

1. "Apartheid now, apartheid tomorrow, apartheid forever."

It was snappier when George Wallace said it.

Bibi's quote about the Jordan River is pretty much proof that the Israelis are lying to the entire world, and in some cases even themselves, when they say they believe in a two-state solution.

[BillZBubb]

3. Yep. Land grab. nt

[The Magistrate]

9. Unfortunately, Sir, Your's Is a Sound Reading

At least so long as Likud governments are elected, it is hard to argue Israel's policy is not 'one land between the river and the sea', and that the means by which this will be secured is a policy of annexation in all but name of the portions of the Jordan valley over-run in '67. It did not have to be that way, and even now does not have to be that way, but it seems to be the way things are trending. I suspect Netanyahu will go down in history as the man who did more harm than anyone else to the state of Israel, and its future prospects.

[geek tragedy]

10. The rot of the occupation has seeped into the Israeli

body politic. Two generations have been raised with Israel owning "Judea and Samaria" with the fastest-growing portions of the Jewish electorate being settlers and Haradrim. Zionism, it appears, will go the way of Marxist-Leninism as an ideology that was given a chance on a national level but imploded due to its own conceptual limitations, though in both cases there will always be those claiming that it was merely improperly implemented.

[The Magistrate]

11. Worth Noting, Sir

That Mr. Ben-Gurion, pretty much the founder, urged back in the wake of the '67 war that the territory over-run be relinquished rather than occupied. Young bloods thought the old man had gone a bit dotty, but time has shown he was sharp as ever, and ought to have been heeded.

[geek tragedy]

12. Indeed, he recognized that "how does this end"

is a question that should be answered or at least asked. It seems 47 years hence, there is no answer.

[BillZBubb]

2. There you go, that's what this has been all about from the beginning.

Israel wants the stolen land and they'll do anything to keep it. If it's a perpetual state of war they are after, they may just get it.

[sulphurdunn]

4. "...security control

of the territory west of the Jordan River" Translation: continued encroachment, eventual de facto annexation and expulsion of the indigenous population.

[DRoseDARs]

5. Netanyahu's blood-thirst won't be sated until the Jews are driven into the sea...

Oh, sorry, meant the Palestinians.

Same hatred, different victim.

[DeSwiss]

6. ....

''And the meek shall inherit the Earth.''

~Jesus

[Purveyor]

7. K&R for exposure. eom

[PatrynXX]

8. ie he's guilty of war crimes now

oops. putin copycat. there is no angle in which this looks good on israel. Everyone in Israel is rocking outside hardly acting spooked. the Damage Ben has done of late will come to haunt them later. Ben's a terrorist with a huge expensive American made defense dome warnings sirens etc. Palestine doesn't have any of that..