Israel won’t be binational state, Palestinians must choose peace: PM

“With every passing year we must tie the bonds tighter, reach out to the next generation”, the front-runner for the Democratic Party presidential nomination said Sunday to the Saban Forum in Washington, an annual conference of American and Israeli leaders.

At his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu says “Israel will not be a binational state, but in order to have peace, the other side needs to decide that it wants peace as well”.

Kerry said that the likelihood of the collapse occurring increased on a daily basis and that current trends were leading towards a one-state reality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister insists his country is not heading toward becoming a binational state, rejecting a warning to that effect by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

He also lamented that Israeli settlements were expanding further into areas Palestinians considered part of a future state while denying permits for Palestinian projects in territories that would be negotiated over as part of an eventual peace agreement.

Wallstrom had already taken heat by Israeli officials last month, after discussing the frustration of Palestinian youth from the Israeli occupation, several days after the Paris terror attacks in which 130 people were killed, implicitly tying the two issues together.

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Since the violence erupted, 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings and shootings.

The Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state says a Palestinian leadership vacuum could provide an opening for IS to make inroads. “Without the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, the IDF would be forced to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers to the West Bank indefinitely”.

Clashes have been witnessed across the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and Gaza, as well as in Arab communities inside the occupied 1948 land, since early October; against the backdrop of Israel’s repeated assaults against al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. At least 107 Palestinians have also died, including 72 said by Israel to be attackers. Yousif said Israeli forces raided the medical center while the children were receiving treatment for tear gas inhalation.