Netanyahu: Palestinians should be sovereign, but not at Israel's expense

[Scurrilous]

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"In his address before a delegation of visiting American Jewish leaders on Monday, Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out unilateral territorial pullbacks, charging that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 has allowed the Islamic militant Hamas to take over the coastal territory.

Netanyahu indicated during his address tp about 100 leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that his offer to the Palestinians would be considerably less than a sovereign state.

He said he would not wanted to govern the Palestinians, but asserted that Israel must maintain control of all borders, airspace and electronic traffic.

"Regardless how the solution is achieved, the Palestinians should run their lives," he said. "They should govern themselves, but they shouldn't have certain powers that would threaten the state of Israel."

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[oberliner]

1. Your excerpt does not match the actual article

Also your excerpt appears to include some typos/grammatical errors ("tp" for "to", "He said he would not wanted to govern...")

Very weird.

[azurnoir]

2. Not really weird at all

I posted an article from Ha'aretz the other day in which Israel was misspelled in the title, I corrected it because it bugged me, also the last update time is less than 1 minute prior to the post time of the article so it was probably updated after the excerpts were taken.
Anyone who posts from Ha'aretz and a few other sources like AP should know that sometimes the updates so change the original article it is not even recognizable

[oberliner]

3. Well I do think it is weird for an Israeli news source to spell Israel incorrectly

Similarly, I would think they would have an editor look at the site before including an article with such egregious errors (like "tp" instead of "to")

[iconicgnom]

6. I thought Netanyahu's "offer" was weird. But that's probably just me.

No doubt it sounded totally understandable, to you.

[oberliner]

8. Agreed - his "offer" is ridiculous

A state that isn't sovereign is not a state. And what he is describing is not acceptable.

Netanyahu as PM will be a disaster for the peace process - I am still holding out hope that he can be prevented from taking the reins.

[aranthus]

4. This won't work.

The Palestinians will never accept second class sovereignty, nor should they. Granted, Israel has legitimate concerns about whether a Palestinian state would simply become a staging area for continued attacks on Israel, but that's the risk that Israel is going to have to take. If the Palestinians do not get a viable, fully sovereign state out of the deal, then there isn't going to be a deal.

[defendandprotect]

5. Israel should be sovereign, but not at Palestine's expense . . .

is that what Palestinians said when Israel was seeking a homeland?

Did it make sense then --- ?

If not, it can't make sense now --- !

[LeftishBrit]

7. Then he's not supporting a sovereign state

He is supporting, at best, what in the UK is called 'devolution'. It will never work in this context.

Palestine needs its own state.

Oh and a big ugh to Netanyahu!