Israeli PM reverses his support for a two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PHOTO: REUTERS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that as long as he is the leader, a Palestinian state would not be established, reversing his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Netanyahu made the assertion on the eve of an election in which he is trailing in the polls. “Whoever moves to establish a Palestinian state or intends to withdraw from [the occupied] territory is simply yielding territory for radical Islamic terrorist attacks against Israel,” he said.
The comments reversed a 2009 speech in which Netanyahu endorsed the concept of two states for two peoples between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2015.
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