Netanyahu says backs "contiguous" Palestinian state

[MindMover]

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support on Tuesday for the first time for Palestinians to establish a contiguous state, saying their future country should not look like "Swiss cheese".

But only hours earlier, a ministerial committee in his right-wing government granted Israeli legal status to three previously unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, drawing Palestinian and international criticism.

Palestinians fear such outposts and the 130 formal settlements Israel has built in the territory it captured in a 1967 war will deny them a viable state.

Asked on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront program whether he would accept the Palestinians' belief they should have a country that is contiguous, Netanyahu replied: "Yes."

"Not as a Swiss cheese? No," Netanyahu added, addressing a key Palestinian concern, that the state they seek would be comprised of pockets of villages and towns surrounded by Israeli settlements.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/us-palestinians-israel-settlements-idUSBRE83N12920120424

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[teddy51]

1. Netanyahu is so full of shit, and that's all he spews. Say's one thing, but does something else.

He has proven a thousand times over that he can't be trusted. I hope we see the end of Government in the next election!

[Ian David]

3. When he says something you don't like, he's a genocidal tyrant.

When he says something you DO like, he's full of shit.

How convenient for you.

[teddy51]

4. There is nothing that he says that I do like, so don't put words in my mouth. He's full

of shit all of the time. Not sure what kind of crap he is pulling in the with the settlements, but it sucks just like he does.

[Ian David]

7. So you DON'T want a contiguous Palestinian state? Do you hate Palestinians AND Jews? n/t

[teddy51]

8. Get lost with your contiguous Palestine as Israel continues to eat up their land. WTF are you

talking about man. Israel now has a Government just like we had in the US from 2001-2008.

[Ian David]

9. But that's what he just SAID he wanted. And YOU said you don't like anything he says.

Are you confused about what YOU are saying?

Or do you not really care so long as you can just come here to stir the shit?

[teddy51]

12. You know damn well what I am talking about.... see this.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/04/israel-to-legalize-west-bank-outposts.html

[Ian David]

14. And? n/t

[teddy51]

15. And what? Netanyahu is breaking International law by doing what he is doing, and it was talked

about in both the Los Angeles Times and http://www.haaretz.com/ today. So where are you going with this?

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. What is your alternative?

[ronnie624]

24. How about saying something and actually meaning it and following through with it

instead of saying something and doing the opposite?

[Ian David]

2. I'm gonna Rec because all the Anti-Semite... I mean, anti-Israel people do that...

... every time someone posts something against Israel in the Late Break News Forum.

So, FAYA....

From now on, whenever someone posts something in LBN that casts Israel in a good light... even if it's from a douchebag like Netanyahu... I'm gonna rec it and see how high it will go, just like all the anti-Semites... I mean, "people who are critical of some of Israel's policies" (for example, allowing Jewish people to continue to live) do.

At least until the mods start treating it like a TOS violation when long time posters who obviously know better keep doing it on purpose.

[Poll_Blind]

5. That's a grossly bigoted comment to make. Even the President has had it up to his eyebrows with...

...Benjamin Netanyahu's lies.

PB

[Ian David]

6. Not bigoted. Observational. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. Jury is back.

Greets from #5. Welcome to 2012. Hope your night is going well...



ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

Over the top non-issue.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Tue Apr 24, 2012, 10:53 PM, and the Jury voted 3-3 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: Argumentum ad Hitlerum is a fallacy for a reason. Disagreeing with you on foreign policy is not a sign of genocidal tendencies. Grow the fuck up and stop making DU suck.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: A bit off the chart. Hide it.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: Broadbrushing DUers
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Oh FFS. Its a *rec*. Find something else to whine about.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: The post is over the top, name calling and a pack of lies. But I don't think anyone will take it seriously, so I'll go with letting the poster make and ass of themselves.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. And the LEAVE ITs win by one "let the poster make an ass of himself".

[Purveyor]

22. +1

[Purveyor]

19. Oop, oop...there it is, there it is, the ole Anti-Semite card. So handy, so convenient, so

predictiable...

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Yes, and the people cheering it on are the same ones

who swear up and down that people don't get accused of anti-semitism for criticizing Israeli policy or leadership.

It's all as contorted as the eventual proposed Palestinian state borders will be.

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. Pathetic. And shameful and shouldn't be allowed here.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. More like a highly contorted octopus?

I'd say pay attention to his actions, not his lips, to know what his real aims are.

[Martin Eden]

16. Words are one thing. Facts on the ground are something quite different.

The Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the roads connecting them make it impossible for the Palestinians to have a viable contiguous state -- unless the settlements are abandoned or the Jewish settlers are willing to live within a Palestinian state subject to Palestinian laws and authority ... is that what Netanyahu has in mind?

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Methinks he's speaking with a forked tongue.

[Daniel537]

23. That's good to hear

I just wonder how it would work out. Assuming the "swiss cheese" thing also applies to Israel's borders, this scenario would almost certainly entail Eilat being given to the Palestinians. I wonder if most Israelis would support that?

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Reccing this so people can see the idiotic anti-semitism accusations.