Netanyahu demands Israeli presence in West Bank

[Scurrilous]

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"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel must have a presence in the West Bank to stop rockets from being imported even after a peace agreement is achieved, the first time he has spelled out such a demand.

He said the experience of rocket attacks from the Lebanese and Gaza borders means Israel must be able to prevent such weapons from being brought into any future Palestinian entity in the West Bank.

"We cannot afford to have that across from the center of our country," he told foreign reporters Wednesday in Jerusalem.

"In the case of a future settlement with the Palestinians, this will require an Israeli presence on the eastern side of a prospective Palestinian state," he said, without elaborating."

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[MUAD_DIB]

1. This land is our land, you can go pound sand, you dirty abrabs, go back to Islam.

God gave this to us and we'll theft the rest.

We're going to make sure you're never free.

:sarcasm:

[aranthus]

2. No sane person would ever agree to this.

What is going on over there? It seems as if the Israeli government and the PA are just trading PR shots. One day Abbas comes up with some new condition for talks that he knows the Israelis will never agree to, and a few days later Netanyahu makes a demand like this, that gives the Palestinians reason tho think that there's no point in talking at all.

[Violet_Crumble]

3. Nutty isn't the slightest bit interested in negotiations...

All he's interested in is stalling, making demands, making more demands, misusing the word 'peace', and biding time so the prospect of a Palestinian state becomes less and less likely. I think there's no chance of anything much improving while Nutty and his bunch of extremists are in power, and while Hamas is in control in Gaza....

[bemildred]

4. Yep, looking hard for a way to make it the Palestinians "fault".

I get the feeling he is very annoyed about the pressure to halt the settlements.

[Tripmann]

5. And will there be a palestinian delegation in Israel

to stop weapons being imported there?

Yep, just as ridiculous as it sounds, and that works both ways. Yet again, bibi bogs down the process, and abbas isn't being much help either.