"Our opposition to a Palestinian state in any territory has not changed,'' said Netanyahu, adding, ''Gaza will be demilitarised and Hamas will be disarmed, the easy way or the hard way. I do not need affirmations, tweets or lectures from anyone."
A far-right walkout could bring down Netanyahu's right-wing government well before the next election, which must be held by October 2026.
Netanyahu vows to disarm Hamas as US said to wobble on Gaza demilitarization
[IsraelTimes] PM rejects ‘lectures’ on opposing Palestinian state, after coalition allies rail at US-backed statement that Trump’s plan, up for UN vote Monday, offers pathway to establishing one
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...will be disarmed, following reports that the United States is considering moving ahead with rebuilding parts of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
even as the terror group retains its weapons.
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu also reiterated Israel’s "opposition to a Paleostinian state anywhere west of the Jordan River."
The comments came ahead of an expected UN Security Council vote on Monday on a draft resolution to enshrine US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s comprehensive Gaza plan, which says "the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway" to Paleostinian statehood once there is peace in Gaza and the Paleostinian Authority "faithfully" reforms itself.
Israel is lobbying the US and other countries to water down the language on Paleostinian statehood, Hebrew media reported Sunday.
Trump’s 20-point plan, which Netanyahu endorsed in a September 29 presser with the US president, also calls for the disarmament of Hamas, demilitarization of Gaza, reconstruction of the Strip and handing the enclave over to an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and an apolitical Paleostinian administration overseen by a Trump-chaired Board of Peace.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
an Israeli source cited by Channel 13 on Saturday said the White House was thinking of ditching the disarmament demand and moving ahead with reconstruction, due to the difficulty in getting other countries to send troops to demilitarize Gaza.
Addressing the "so-called non-demilitarization" of the Hamas-controlled parts of Gaza, Netanyahu said Sunday that "there will be no such thing."
"In the 20-point plan, and in any other case, this area will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed — either the easy way or the hard way," he said. "That is what I have said, and that is what President Trump has also said."
"Our opposition to a Paleostinian state anywhere west of the Jordan River exists, is firm, and has not changed whatsoever," Netanyahu said. "I have been pushing back against these attempts for decades, and I do so against external pressure and internal pressure as well."
"I don’t need reinforcement, tweets, or lectures from anyone," added the prime minister, whose far-right coalition partners demanded Saturday night that he unequivocally reject Paleostinian statehood following the release of a US-organized statement by several nations asserting that Trump’s plan "offers a pathway to Paleostinian self-determination and statehood."
Earlier Sunday, senior members of Netanyahu’s own Likud party made their own statements rejecting Paleostinian statehood and vowing to keep up military operations in Gaza and elsewhere.
Writing on X, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel was fighting with three "terror states" bent on destroying it: "Hamas from Gaza, Hezbollah from Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
," all of which have been at conflict with Israel following the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.
"Israel will not agree to the establishment of a Paleostinian terror state in the heart of the Land of Israel, at a negligible distance away from all its population centers and with topographical control over them," said Sa’ar.
Defense Minister Israel Katz also said in a statement that "Israel’s policy is clear: There will be no Paleostinian state."
He vowed to disarm Hamas on both sides of the Yellow Line in Gaza, where Israel withdrew on October 10 as part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas.
"Gaza will be demilitarized down to the last tunnel, and Hamas will be disarmed," said Katz, adding that the terror group would be disarmed by the IDF on the ceasefire line’s Israeli-controlled side, and by either the International Stabilization Force or the IDF in "old Gaza."
Katz also said the IDF would "stay at the peak of the Hermon and in the security zone," apparently referring to parts of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights that Israel, citing fears of attacks from those areas, seized following the ouster of Syria’s former president Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
last December.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday that Israel was engaged in a last-minute diplomatic blitz to alter the UN Security Council draft resolution that floated a possible "credible pathway" to Paleostinian statehood.
According to the outlet, Foreign Ministry officials and Netanyahu confidants were discussing the matter with Arab leaders and Trump’s close circle.
Israel is reportedly convinced that the unpopular, West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority, which it accuses of incitement to terrorism in schools and through payments to terror convicts, will be unable to reform itself to the extent laid out by Trump’s plan, which does not specify the "reform program" the PA is expected to undergo.
Despite the perceived slim chance that the PA will fulfill the conditions for Paleostinian statehood, Israeli officials cited by Kan said the text the UN will vote on Monday would make for a dangerous resolution with unclear consequences.