The entire conflict between Israel and the Arabs is over their denial of Israel’s right to exist and not about Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
Netanyahu spoke at the meeting of the National Public Diplomacy Forum to summarize the recent Operation Pillar of Defense, which targeted Hamas’s terror infrastructure in Gaza.
“What was the war about? The war was about our very existence. We left areas that we captured in the Six Day War, like the Gaza Strip, and they fire missiles at us.
Therefore, our top public diplomacy mission is to explain that the root of this conflict is not territorial,” said Netanyahu. “It is over our very existence in any borders whatsoever.
“From 1967 until today, for 45 years, day in, day out, and hour by hour, they have been preaching the complete opposite. So certainly the lie has taken root, and there is no way to fight a lie except with the truth. We must tell the truth; it is the only thing that we can do and we must certainly do so. We must constantly repeat that the root of the conflict is the very existence of the State of Israel, the refusal to recognize the State of Israel in any borders whatsoever.
“The second thing is their methods, mainly their desire to intentionally attack civilians. There is a link between the first and second points. Whoever uses such methods is beyond the pale internationally, morally and legally. He does not want peace.
“The root of the conflict is not the settlements; it is the very existence of the State of Israel and the desire to wipe it off the face of the earth. We can anticipate many developments and changes in this evolving Middle East that we face, and some of them are very, very disturbing.”
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If Israel’s politicians are willing to actually say this, then hopefully the the next step is not far away:
If the conflict is about our existence, then there is no solution. Only the Ribbono shel Olam can help us.
TRUTH be told….
That is exactly what Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT”L said! Now I’m starting to like Bibi! Rabbi Kahane always phrased it the following way: “If the occupied territories are what’s bothering the arabs, how come there was no peace in 1966? Or 1947?” ???