Netanyahu asks whether a Palestinian sovereign state would work

Published: 6 November 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

In London, Netanyahu warns a future Palestinian state could be taken over by militant Islam and says removing Israeli settlers from the West Bank would constitute ethnic cleansing

Netanyahu suggests a sovereign state might not work for Palestinians (Haaretz)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that before establishing a Palestinian state “it's time we reassessed whether the modern model we have of sovereignty, and unfettered sovereignty, is applicable everywhere in the world.”

Netanyahu made the remarks at an open session at the Chatham House think-tank in London during a visit in honour of the Balfour Declaration centenary. When asked about the viability of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu warned that “in the Middle East we’ve seen too many failed states. When Western power leaves and when Israeli power leaves, as we saw in Gaza, it is always immediately replaced by militant Islam.”

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