In Israeli internal politics, there has been discussion for days about an alleged American plan for ‘the day after Beniamin Netanyahu’. The Israeli Prime Minister responded today, at a press conference, that any movement in this sense would imply working for “a Palestinian State”, to which he has reiterated that he opposes. Even despite pressure in favor of the United States. He would have transferred it that way.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has insisted after his last tour in the Middle East that normalization in the region with Israel involves giving content to a Palestinian State. Arab states believe that a ceasefire in Gaza and working towards it is the way forward to find a solution. The premier’s opposition, however, extends to both proposals.
Netanyahu believes that a ceasefire sends a message of weakness and would damage Israel’s security for generations. He also believes that the Hebrew state must maintain security control from the Jordan River to the west, which in practice means rejecting the Palestinian state.
As he stressed in his press conference, he intends to block the plan to establish a Palestinian State as part of the ‘day after’ the war in Gaza or his own mandate. He thus reiterates his traditional position on this issue. And he criticizes the idea of ??giving control over the strip to the Palestinian National Authority.
“I tell this truth to our American friends and I also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that would harm Israel’s security,” said Netanyahu, adding that the majority of the Israeli population maintains its position of rejecting a possible Palestinian state. His option remains a war until Hamas is eliminated. Also for the objective of freeing the 136 hostages in the hands of the Islamist organization, not all of them alive.
The prime minister, highly questioned by broad social sectors of the country before the Hamas attack on October 7, currently leads a cabinet of national unity. The dissensions within him, however, are repeated. He also adds friction with the United States.
