PM says no Palestinian state under his watch

Netanyahu says in an interview to NRG that so long as he is prime minister, a Palestinian state will not be established.

Netanyahu says he objects to the establishment of a Palestinian state and adds that Israel is facing a series of international initiatives meant to return it to pre-1967 lines and to divide Jerusalem.

Asked, “If you are PM there will be no Palestinian state?” he replies, “Indeed.”

“I think anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state and to evacuate territory, is giving radical Islam a staging ground against the State of Israel,” Netanyahu says.

In a speech at Bar-Ilan University in June 2009, Netanyahu said that “if we receive a guarantee for security arrangements needed for Israel and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the home of the Jewish people, we will be willing in a future peace deal to reach a solution of a demilitarized Palestinian state side by side with the Jewish state.”

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