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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
ZOA strongly praises Israel’s longest-serving prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for clearly opposing the creation of a Palestinian Arab (terrorist dictatorship ) state yesterday. PM Netanyahu stated and repeated during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting: “We need to eliminate their [Palestinian Authority Arabs’] aspirations for a state."
ZOA is pleased that PM Netanyahu reaffirmed his many past statements opposing a Palestinian Arab state, which would surely be a terrorist dictatorship, despite the Biden administration’s wrongful, illegal, dangerous pressures to create this Iran/Hamas state along Israel’s longest border. The Biden administration needs to be disabused of its harmful, violence-inducing, even naive aspirations to create a Palestinian Arab state on Israel’s lawful, historic, Balfour declaration-given, League of Nations-given, UN-given, G-d-given lands in Judea/Samaria and Jerusalem. (See, e.g., ZOA: Israel’s Legal Right to the Land of Israel.)
PM Netanyahu’s past statements include:
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In a famous 2002 speech to the Likud Central Committee, Netanyahu correctly explained that a Palestinian Arab state would never keep a demilitarization agreement; would make alliances with foreign powers; would import weapons; would shoot down Israeli planes; and would result in Israel being blamed and stopped if Israel attempted to enforce demilitarization. If Israel agreed to a Palestinian Arab state, “We will thus have created with our own hands a threat to our very existence.”
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In 2015, Netanyahu promised that he will not allow a Palestinian Arab state, and said: “Whoever moves to establish a Palestinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical Islamic terrorist attacks against Israel.”
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In July 2017, Netanyahu’s Likud Party (Israel’s largest political party) formally voted to oppose forming a Palestinian Arab state.
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In March 2018, Netanyahu stated in The New York Times that a Palestinian state “doesn’t work. . . . When we leave land, Arab terror organizations take over. Immediately.”
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