Naftali Bennett - I will do everything in my power to prevent a Pal

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state

Topics

Citations

Remnick, David. "The Party Faithful." The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2013.

Related Quotes

Naftali Bennett

The era of a Palestinian state is over.

Khaled Mashal

The problem is not that there is an entity called Israel. The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent.

This was an interview with Reuters News Agency in English. Arab leaders often make English Statements to the Western Press which are completely contradictory to what they say to their Arab constituents and followers. In this case he seems to acknowledge that Hamas and he do not deny the right of Israel to exist and accepts that nation per se. Yet at the same time Meshaal has never made this statement in Arabic and has made no gesture to change the Hamas Charter which calls for the destruction and elimination of Israel or to criticize the Hamas other leaders and followers who constantly call for “Death to Israel” and the destruction of the Jewish state. See {585395} for an eloquent statement of the practice of Arab leaders and politicians.

Hillary Clinton

It will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state.

James Baker

The United States cannot want peace more than the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Jimmy Carter

I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.

Yasser Arafat

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

John Pilger

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

Naftali Bennett

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

John Kerry

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

Mohammed Morsi

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.

Natan Sharansky

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

David Miliband

We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.

Mahmoud Abbas

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Tony Blair

How do you negotiate a two state solution with the Palestinians when they do not believe that one of the states has the right to exist?

In the complicated and arcane Middle East, substantial majorities of Israelis and Palestinians both favored a two state solution, thus creating a Palestinian State out of the West Bank and Gaza. However, the Hamas terrorist organization won the majority of seats in the Parliament and formed the “government” of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas opposed Israel’s right to exist at all, as that position as well as virulent Anti-Semitic threats to all Jews in the world. Many called for Hamas to change their charter and crease their opposition to the right of Israel to exist. The President of the Palestinian authority called for new elections but Hamas refused. Thus Blair and other diplomats the world over were in a very difficult situation.

Jeffery Goldberg

The future of Israel has been a key bipartisan concern for generations of Americans, and it is almost axiomatic that if the Palestinians have no viable future, neither does Israel.

Yair Lapid

Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

Ayelet Shaked

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

Sayed Kashua

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

Richard Grenell

The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their capital in a future state.

Naftali Bennett

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.

Naftali Bennett

We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

Allen West

Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date...

Cindy Sheehan

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

About the Author

Naftali Bennett

Born: March 25, 1972
Nationality: Israeli
Profession: Politician

Biography

Naftali Bennett is an Israeli politician who led the Jewish Home party between 2012 and 2018 and currently serves as an MK for New Right. Between 2013 and 2015, he held the posts of Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Economy and Minister of Religious Services. From 2015 he continued as Minister of Diaspora Affairs and became Minister of Education. From 2019 to 2020 he was Minister of Defense.

Naftali Bennett Quotes