Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said he would tell U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel will rebuff any moves at the United Nations to set a timeframe for a withdrawal from territory Palestinians seek for state, Reuters reported.
The State Department has said the two men will meet in Rome on Monday to discuss various proposals for a Palestinian state that are circulating at the United Nations.
Kerry will then meet Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and a delegation of Arab foreign ministers in London on Tuesday, who will urge for the United States not to use its U.N. Security Council veto to block the proposals, Palestinian officials said.
Netanyahu, who is in the middle of campaigning for a March election, will also meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi along with Kerry, Reuters reported.
“I will tell both of them that Israel stands, to a great extent, as a solitary island against the waves of Islamic extremism washing over the entire Middle East,” Netanyahu said on Sunday in public remarks to his cabinet.
He said Israel now faced a possible diplomatic offensive “to force upon us” such a withdrawal within two years. “This will bring the radical Islamic elements to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem. We will not allow this. We will rebuff this forcefully and responsibly. Let there be no doubt, this will be rejected.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
This is really an unconstructive future to imagine a terror state formed to counter the rights of Jewish sovereignty.
Japan of the 1940s is evidence of what a terror state does to its surroundings.
The idea of palestinians having their own state when they have not disavowed human agitation and hatred is like hooking up the Tower of Hate and giving it a future.
This is absurd.
I can not see how this serves any American interest and clearly we need to keep our own needs in higher priority.
No, not Palestinians – Muslims!