Netanyahu turns to peace issues.
“Why is it that we don’t have peace? Is it me? There were five other prime ministers since Oslo, since the peace process began. How come they didn’t make peace?”
“The reason is that the underlying problem is not Israel’s willingness to compromise. It’s that after Gaza, Israelis asked a question: ‘What happens when we set up a state on the other side? Do we get a state that wants to live with us? Or do we get a state that wants to destroy us?’ Israel went by the book: It left Gaza to the last square centimeter, the last [settler], even disinterred people from their graves.
“It left the keys to Abbas, who promptly lost it to Hamas, who fired thousands of rockets on us.
“The same thing happened to us in Lebanon. We got not Hamas, but Hezbollah, Iran, and they also fired 15,000 rockets on us.
“So Israelis ask a simple question: ‘If we were to set up a Palestinian state, how do we make sure that state does not become another Gaza, and doesn’t work for our destruction?”
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