Netanyahu at UN: Refusal to accept Jewish state is heart of conflict

22 September 2016, 8:06 pm

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Netanyahu says the heart of the conflict is not Israel’s settlements, but rather the Palestinian refusal to accept a Jewish state.

“This conflict is not about the settlements, it never was,” he says. “The issue of settlements is a real one, which must and can be resolved in final status negotiations.”

The prime minister says he is “ready to negotiate all final status issues,” but vows that he will “never negotiate our right to the one and only Jewish state.”

He adds: “If the Palestinians had said yes to a Jewish state in 1947 there would have been no war… and when they do finally say yes to a Jewish state we will be able to end this conflict once and for all.”