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Danny Danon, dismally, is the true face of Netanyahu’s Israel
http://www.timesofisrael.com/danny-danon-dismally-is-the-true-face-of-netanyahus-israel/In an interview with The Times of Israel in June 2013, Danny Danon, serving at the time as deputy minister of defense, asserted that his Likud party and the governing coalition of the day were staunchly opposed to a two-state solution. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s professions of support in principle for a two-state deal, the government, said Danon, would block the creation of a Palestinian state if such a proposal ever came to a vote.
His comments caused an uproar. Taking the highly unusual step of contacting The Times of Israel during Shabbat, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office insisted that Danon’s remarks did “not represent the position of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel.” Quite the contrary. The sources went on to say that the prime minister “is interested in a resumption of negotiations without preconditions,” and that his positions regarding support for a two-state solution remained in force.
On Friday, Netanyahu announced the appointment of Danon as Israel’s next ambassador to the United Nations — the representative of Israel, that is, who is charged with arguing Israel’s case at the UN Security Council.
Later in 2013, Danon stepped up his rhetoric, declaring that anyone who supports a peace agreement with the Palestinians has no place in the Likud party. The Likud “won’t support an agreement that hands away our assets for nothing,” Danon asserted. And whoever supports such an agreement, “choosing to go against the ideals of the Likud, won’t be in the Likud.”
His comments caused an uproar. Taking the highly unusual step of contacting The Times of Israel during Shabbat, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office insisted that Danon’s remarks did “not represent the position of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel.” Quite the contrary. The sources went on to say that the prime minister “is interested in a resumption of negotiations without preconditions,” and that his positions regarding support for a two-state solution remained in force.
On Friday, Netanyahu announced the appointment of Danon as Israel’s next ambassador to the United Nations — the representative of Israel, that is, who is charged with arguing Israel’s case at the UN Security Council.
Later in 2013, Danon stepped up his rhetoric, declaring that anyone who supports a peace agreement with the Palestinians has no place in the Likud party. The Likud “won’t support an agreement that hands away our assets for nothing,” Danon asserted. And whoever supports such an agreement, “choosing to go against the ideals of the Likud, won’t be in the Likud.”
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"There will be no Palestinian State"
-Benjamim Netanyahu.
Nice try.
I truly fell sorry for such people.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647212
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected, a Palestinian state would not be created, in a definite disavowal of his 2009 speech, in which he had voiced support for the principle of two states for two peoples.
Netanyahu's remarks in an interview with the NRG website - which is owned by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and tied with the settler newspaper Makor Rishon - were a last-minute attempt to pull right-wing voters away from Habayit Hayehudi.
"I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel," Netanyahu said. "The left has buried its head in the sand time and after time and ignores this, but we are realistic and understand."
During the interview, Netanyahu declared that if the Zionist Union were to win the elections, "it would attach itself to the international community and do their bidding," including freezing construction in West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, and cooperate with international initiatives to return Israel's borders to the 1967 lines.
The one thing that is worse than the lying Prime Minister of Apartheid is the grade-D hasbarists who fail at properly juggling those lies for him.
Wouldn't you agree? Sweet dreams.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected, a Palestinian state would not be created, in a definite disavowal of his 2009 speech, in which he had voiced support for the principle of two states for two peoples.
Netanyahu's remarks in an interview with the NRG website - which is owned by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and tied with the settler newspaper Makor Rishon - were a last-minute attempt to pull right-wing voters away from Habayit Hayehudi.
"I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel," Netanyahu said. "The left has buried its head in the sand time and after time and ignores this, but we are realistic and understand."
During the interview, Netanyahu declared that if the Zionist Union were to win the elections, "it would attach itself to the international community and do their bidding," including freezing construction in West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, and cooperate with international initiatives to return Israel's borders to the 1967 lines.
The one thing that is worse than the lying Prime Minister of Apartheid is the grade-D hasbarists who fail at properly juggling those lies for him.
Wouldn't you agree? Sweet dreams.
You are the one who apparently believes what he says.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134110454#post8
....their mirror-opposites on the other extreme end of the political spectrum who, just like them, are also for 1-state.
I get why people who support a genuine, peaceful 2 state solution would be upset by Danon, but....