{"id":9440,"date":"2018-03-07T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbreakingnews.com\/jbn\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2024-03-13T05:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:25:38","slug":"netanyahu-says-solution-may-not-include-full-sovereignty-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbreakingnews.com\/netanyahu-says-solution-may-not-include-full-sovereignty-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Says Solution May Not Include \u2018Full Sovereignty\u2019 for Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to say whether he now believes in a two-state solution, saying it was up to the Palestinians to prove that a sovereign state would not threaten Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want a solution where they have all the power they need to govern themselves but none of the powers to threaten,\u201d Netanyahu said Wednesday, addressing The Economic Club of Washington. \u201cDoes that comport with full sovereignty? I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s what we need to live.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu\u2019s conditions for a final status deal have not changed: He said as he has in the past that it is critical that Israel retain \u201coverriding security\u201d control in the West Bank, and that it control airspace.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you say Israel\u2019s airspace stops at Ben Gurion Airport, well, we\u2019re dead,\u201d Netanyahu said, noting how close Israel\u2019s international airport is to the West Bank.<\/p>\n
However, in his remarks Wednesday \u2014 echoing a similar conversation he had Monday with Israeli journalists following his meeting with President Donald Trump \u2014 Netanyahu retreated from forecasting a two-state solution, language he had previously embraced.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Palestinian state exists alongside the Jewish state,\u201d Netanyahu said in 2009 in a\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0at Bar-Ilan University delivered at the behest of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n Soon after assuming the presidency, Trump last year retreated from U.S. policy embracing two states, saying the ultimate contours of a deal should be up to the parties. The Palestinians officially endorse a two-state outcome. The Trump administration wants to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.<\/p>\n