Bennett: We will not sit in a government that accepts agreement based on 1967 lines

[Jefferson23]

'Peace talks with the Palestinians have only brought terror,' says economy minister and head of Habayit Hayehudi party.
By Barak Ravid | Jan. 7, 2014 | 5:10 PM

Israel's Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that his Habayit Hayehudi party "will not sit in a coalition that, because of international pressure, divides Jerusalem and puts our security at risk."

Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Bennett added: "We will never agree to give up a unified Jerusalem… we will never accept an agreement based on the 1967 lines."

"Since the peace talks started there has been a slowly-growing intifada," Bennett said. "Peace talks with the Palestinians have only brought us terror."

"If our friends in the world ask us to commit suicide - even if they have good intentions - we will tell them 'no,'" Bennett said, about the international pressure to reach an agreement with the Palestinians. "They tell us there is an occupation and that it's immoral as Jews. Let me tell you this - we are not occupiers in our land," he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.567491

[on point]

1. Good glad we cleared that up. Use the 1947 lines then as starting point

[oberliner]

3. The 1947 lines?

What are those?

[on point]

4. The original boundaries of state of Israel has granted by UN before taking additional land

[oberliner]

5. Are you talking about the Partition Plan?

Do you mean the boundaries proposed in the Partition Plan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine

I'm pretty sure no one supports that on either side.

[on point]

6. Maybe they should. Make them flexible.

Personally I am for single secular state

[oberliner]

7. If only the Partition Plan had been accepted in the first place

Maybe now we wouldn't have these problems.

You wrote that you are for a single secular state, but what if the majority of the Israelis and Palestinians end up voting for a religious one? Wouldn't that be their choice to make?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. "we are not occupiers in our land" That sums up the mindset that team hasbara

will be coy about there.

"All of it belongs to us. Now go fu@k yourself after you give us 3-4 billion for the year."