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20-01-2024
WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: US State Department says “support for Israel remains ironclad” despite Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting US’s stance on establishment of Palestinian state.
Netanyahu is “saying the quiet part out loud”, says US Senator Elizabeth Warren, after Netanyahu once again rejects a two-state solution.
Conditions in Khan Younis’s Nasser hospital have become “unbearable” according to a doctor working there, as Israel attacks the vicinity of the facility, causing thousands to flee.
Near-total telecommunications blackout in the Gaza Strip enters its eighth day on Friday, making it difficult for information to get out of the enclave amid constant Israeli attacks.
At least 24,620 people killed and 61,830 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack stands at 1,139.
Let’s talk about some comments the Israeli prime minister made tonight in his solo press conference.
He reiterated that the only way to bring back the captives was through military pressure.
There have been members of Netanyahu’s own war cabinet who have been dissatisfied with the results that he has been presenting, saying that military pressure is the only way to bring the captives back but that has proven not correct.
Remember that, back in November, there was a deal that required concessions from the Israeli side, and we saw the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for more than 100 captives from Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister also spoke about his insistence that there will be no Palestinian state, saying that for 30 years, this has been his policy.
While there are countries like the United States who want to see that come to fruition, he said that the Israelis are going to control all of the land, whether it’s Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Israel proper, and that there will be no Palestinian state, and he has been firm on that.
The United States policy for a number of years is that there will be a two-state solution.
Yet there has been no real concrete measures taken towards that.
So, the fact that the Israelis are saying that this isn’t going to happen is essentially quoting what the status quo has been for more than 20 years.
There will be a degree of discomfort with what Benjamin Netanyahu is saying. Not least because the Americans have made it very clear they see the future as a two-state solution and they have given Benjamin Netanyahu a great deal of support over the last three months. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
