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Eugene

(62,658 posts)
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 09:19 AM Feb 2017

Netanyahu opposes Palestinian state, Israeli minister says ahead of U.S. visit

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Mon Feb 13, 2017 | 8:48am EST

Netanyahu opposes Palestinian state, Israeli minister says ahead of U.S. visit

By Jeffrey Heller | JERUSALEM

Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a Palestinian state, a senior Israeli cabinet member said on Monday, but left it unclear whether the prime minister would say that publicly in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week.

Netanyahu has never explicitly abandoned his conditional support for a future Palestine, and his spokesman did not respond immediately to a request to comment on Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan's remarks.

Erdan belongs to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, whose leading members have often espoused a harder line than the prime minister himself.

"I think all members of the security cabinet, and foremost the prime minister, oppose a Palestinian state," Erdan told Army Radio after the forum met on Sunday on the eve of Netanyahu's departure for Washington for talks with Trump on Wednesday.

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Netanyahu opposes Palestinian state, Israeli minister says ahead of U.S. visit (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2017 OP
Finally Me. Feb 2017 #1
This will not end well oberliner Feb 2017 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Feb 2017 #3
That's always been his actual position. geek tragedy Feb 2017 #4

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geek tragedy

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4. That's always been his actual position.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 07:56 PM
Feb 2017

Now onto the real task--how to make a single binational state work.

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