Benjamin Netanyahu press conference – Haim Zach (GPO) May 2023
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the rounds of the US news networks, giving interviews before returning to Israel from New York. Netanyahu spent the week in the city where he attended the opening of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. In one, he basically said that the Palestinians do not want Israel to even exist.
In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier on his show Special Report, Benjamin Netanyahu responded positively to comments made by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about reaching a peace deal between his country and Israel. The Prince made the comments on the same Fox program a few days before.
“I was delighted to hear what he had to say,” Netanyahu told Bret Baier.
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He went on to explain why, in his opinion, it took so long to reach peace agreements with other Arab nations like Jordan after Israel first made peace with Egypt in 1979.
“The reason we didn’t have for a quarter-century any new peace treaties after we made peace with Egypt and Jordan, we didn’t have for 25 years a single new peace treaty because everybody said, first you have to satisfy whatever the demands of the Palestinians are,” Netanyahu told Baier. “You’ve got to conclude a peace treaty with the Palestinians. Well, there was only one problem with that. The Palestinians don’t want a peace with Israel.”
But Benjamin Netanyahu does not believe that the Palestinians really want peace with Israel based on a two state solution saying, “They want a peace instead of Israel. They don’t want a state next to Israel,” Netanyahu added. “They want a state instead of Israel. So that wasn’t going to get us anywhere.”
In another interview with CNN, Benjamin Netanyahu had a few words to say about Donald Trump, who has given the Prime Minister the cold shoulder since Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in 2020 American Presidential election.
“I don’t care about it,” Netanyahu Netanyahu told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview on Friday. “I appreciate what President Trump did. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem, he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he recognized our sovereignty over the Golan Heights, he went out of what I thought was a disastrous Iran agreement.”
“I’ve been long enough in political life,” added Benjamin Netanyahu, “to put aside the periodic ebb and flow of emotion, and look at the substantive positions that leaders and allies have [taken], and I respect what was done.”
Donald Trump condemned anyone who recognized President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections before Biden was formally sworn in as President of the United States on January 20, 2023. This is because a bitter Trump continued to contest his defeat.
“He was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him,” said Trump about Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview ith Israeli journalist Barak Ravid.
