PM says Palestinians must recognize Israel, disarm

Netanyahu says 7 years ago he outlined what it would take to bring the two-state solution at Bar Ilan University.

He says it requires mutual recognition. “It’s only natural that they give us what they are asking for themselves,” he says.

He says a Palestinian state must be disarmed.

“Only experience teaches us that only the IDF can guarantee this disarmament,” he says. Not the UN or any other international force, he adds.

The prime minister is interrupted by heckling as he mentions Hamas control in the Gaza Strip.

“For all the talk of separation,” he says, we must understand: “There is no security separation. None. It doesn’t exist.”

“Israel must be responsible for the security,” he says. Israel must oversee disarmament, he adds.

Without mutual recognition and disarmament, there will be no agreement, he says.