In West Bank visit, Netanyahu boasts he met promise to thwart Palestinian state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that he has kept his promise to forestall the creation of a Palestinian state, during a visit to the West Bank settlement of Ofra on the 50th anniversary of its founding.

He recalls visiting 25 years ago, and saying that “we would do everything to ensure our continued hold on the Land of Israel, to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, to thwart the attempts that existed then — and unfortunately still exist — to try to uproot us from here. Thank God, what I promised — we kept.”

There were many pressures on Israel to relent, Netanyahu says: “Pressures from home, pressures from abroad, a series of American presidents who wanted to uproot us and to establish a Palestinian state here. We stood firm together. We upheld the promise of the generations.”