‘Victory Friday’: White House Responds to Victory Over National Injunctions
BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Rogue Judges, Impacting Birthright Citizenship
MSNBC Is Melting Down Over the Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling
That Is a Brutal Footnote in the Supreme Court's Ruling on Birthright Citizenship
New York Socialist Zohran Mamdani Uses Martin Luther King Jr. to Push His...
The Supreme Court Just Ruled on This State's Pornography Law
In Kennedy v. Braidwood, SCOTUS Upholds ACA’s Preventive-Care Mandate
More Major Food Companies Embrace the MAHA Movement With Latest Announcements
DHS Highlights the 'Worst of the Worst - LA Edition'
Amid Sleeper Cell Threat, Here's How Many Iranian Nationals ICE Arrested in the...
Gavin Newsom Is Suing Fox News. Here's Why.
So Book Bans Are Okay Now? San Francisco Store Won't Sell JK Rowling's...
Two Leftist Heroes Have Been Ordered Released From Custody
SCOTUS Hands Down Ruling in Landmark Parental Rights Case
Here's the Shocking Reason Why '160 Democrats' Was Just Trending on X
Tipsheet

Obama's Chief Of Staff Questions Netanyahu's Integrity On Palestinian State

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's word about his commitment to a two-state solution Monday in front of the annual J Street conference in Washington, DC.

Advertisement

"We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made," McDonough's said of a pre-election interview Netanyahu gave last Monday, "that they don’t raise questions about the Prime Minister’s commitment to achieving peace through direct negotiations."

In the now-infamous pre-election interview, Netanyahu told told an Israeli news organization, "I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to the radical Islam against the state of Israel. There is a real threat here that a left-wing government will join the international community and follow its orders."

Asked directly if that meant a Palestinian state was not likely under his leadership, Netanyahu said, "Indeed."

Netanyahu then clarified his remarks after the election Thursday, telling NBC News, "I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that, circumstances have to change. I was talking about what is achievable and what is not achievable. To make it achievable, then you have to have real negotiations with people who are committed to peace.”

Advertisement

"I haven’t changed my policy," Netanyahu continued. "What has changed is the reality.” 

McDonough addressed Netanyahu's claim that he had not changed his position Monday. "After the election, the Prime Minister said that he had not changed his position, but for many in Israel and in the international community, such contradictory comments call into question his commitment to a two-state solution," McDonough said, "as did his suggestion that the construction of settlements has a strategic purpose of dividing Palestinian communities and his claim that conditions in the larger Middle East must be more stable before a Palestinian state can be established."

"An occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end," McDonough continued, "and the Palestinian people must have the right to live in and govern themselves in their own sovereign state."

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement