Bennett: ‘I’ll topple the government’ to prevent a Palestinian state

Education Minister Naftali Bennett promises to topple the government to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“We’re the only party and I’m the only leader who says there won’t be a Palestinian state established here,” he tells Channel 2’s Rina Matzliach in an interview segment aired Thursday evening.

In recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman have promised to pursue a peace agreement and said they support the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“They’re wrong,” says Bennett, who leads the right-wing Jewish Home party.

Palestinian statehood is not part of the government’s policy guidelines as set down in last year’s coalition talks, the education minister notes.

“We’re in a government that I insisted not have [the establishment of] a Palestinian state in its guidelines,” he says.

“As long as we’re here [in the coalition], there won’t be a state of Palestine establishment on Route 6. We won’t split Jerusalem.”

Would he resign, Matzliach asked?

“Unequivocally. I won’t only resign, I’ll topple the government.”