Netanyahu says Israel will not become binational state

Kerry had warned on Saturday about the dangers of the possible collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

Nobody accused U.S. law officials of “extrajudicial executions” when they shot dead the two killers in San Bernadino last week, then why use that term when Israeli security officials kill terrorists carrying out attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked his Swedish counterpart on Sunday.

Human rights groups, meanwhile, including Amnesty International, have suggested that Israeli forces have employed a “shoot-to-kill” policy against alleged Palestinian attackers – even when the latter did not constitute an immediate threat.

Top US diplomat says Israel’s security would be in jeopardy if the Palestinian Authority collapses. Opposition politicians, intellectuals and retired military commanders are issuing increasingly strident warnings that never-ending violence awaits if Israel continues to occupy millions of angry Palestinians who can not vote in its national elections.

Kerry tells a conference at the Brookings Institution on Saturday that the Palestinian leadership must do more to prevent and combat anti-Israel violence.

However, as relations deteriorated in the 2000s and Israeli leaders demanded a reiteration, Palestinian leaders have resisted reasserting recognition of Israel as Jewish. The earlier idea of blaming Israel for regional turmoil was now seen as “childish and irrelevant”, he said.

The PA has repeatedly blamed Israel for the lack of peace talks, which were suspended after an attempt to form a unity government between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and resistance movement Hamas – the two Palestinian factions that respectively govern the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip.

He said a two-state solution is possible only if both sides want peace.

“Are Israelis prepared for the consequences this would have for their children and grandchildren who serve in the (Israel Defence Forces)?” he questioned.

Wallstrom, a former European Commissioner, said that the attacks were “terrible” and “must not happen”, and added that Israel has “the right to defend itself”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded no less sharply at the opening of his weekly Sunday cabinet meeting.

The secretary of state made the remarks a week after visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah, a trip during which he failed to secure willingness on the part of Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to take confidence-building measures.

More than two months of Palestinian knifings, car-rammings and occasionally shootings have killed 19 Israelis and a USA citizen.

She said that one of them was an Israeli soldier, who appeared to have been stabbed, while the other Israeli appeared to have been hit by a auto.