["Look Joe Biden: Netanyahu is spitting in your face," said one
critic. "Are you going to keep hugging him in public or are you going
to finally end the blank check and hold him accountable for his words
and actions?" ]
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NETANYAHU SAYS HE IS ‘ONLY ONE WHO WILL PREVENT A PALESTINIAN
STATE’  
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Jake Johnson
November 28, 2023
Common Dreams
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_ "Look Joe Biden: Netanyahu is spitting in your face," said one
critic. "Are you going to keep hugging him in public or are you going
to finally end the blank check and hold him accountable for his words
and actions?" _

A photo released by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu during a visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday.Credit...,
Israeli Government, via Reuters

 

With his approval ratings in the tank
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been lobbying
members of his Likud party in a bid to keep their support, claiming he
is "the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state" in Gaza and the
West Bank.

Netanyahu's remarks, first reported
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the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, fly in the face of the Biden
administration's continued push for a two-state solution as the "only
way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the
Palestinian people."

"To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike live in equal measure of
freedom and dignity, we will not give up on working towards that
goal," U.S. President Joe Biden, who has offered unconditional
political and military support to Israel during its latest assault on
Gaza, wrote
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media post late Monday.

Analysts
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long argued
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one democratic state, not two states, is the only viable alternative
to the apartheid status quo, given factors such as ever-expanding
Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Throughout his career, Netanyahu
has vociferously opposed a peaceful resolution and worked to divide
Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank by propping up Hamas
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"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state
has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,"
Netanyahu told
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colleagues in 2019. "This is part of our strategy—to isolate the
Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."

In his latest comments to Likud backbenchers, Netanyahu reportedly
said he's "the only one who can withstand U.S. pressure" and that he
knows "how to manage American public opinion," even as American public
support for Israel's assault on Gaza falls
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_The Times of Israel_reported
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that Netanyahu "boasted about having gone against" U.S. wishes by
launching a ground invasion of Gaza and raiding the Palestinian
territory's largest hospital on the pretense that Hamas was hiding a
command center on the facility's grounds—a claim that has not been
substantiated
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Netanyahu, facing mounting domestic pressure
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resign, has also indicated
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Israel plans to occupy the Gaza Strip for an "indefinite period" after
the current war, defying Biden's warning
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a prolonged occupation.

"Look Joe Biden: Netanyahu is spitting in your face," Yonah Lieberman,
co-founder of the Jewish-American advocacy group IfNotNow, wrote on
social media Monday. "He doesn't take you seriously. Are you going to
keep hugging him in public or are you going to finally end the blank
check and hold him accountable for his words and actions?"

News of the Israeli prime minister's meetings with Likud lawmakers
came as the attack on Gaza is under a tenuous pause to allow for the
release of hostages. Netanyahu has opposed a lasting cease-fire and
pledged to continue waging war
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the strip once the pause is over.

The _Financial Times_reported
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that Biden and other top U.S. officials have implored Israel not to
trigger mass internal displacement in its planned offensive in
southern Gaza, where many people have fled to escape Israeli bombing
in the north. Israel's assault has displaced around 70% of Gaza's
population so far.

Israeli officials have not provided any public indication that their
bombing campaign will be less destructive following the end of the
pause.

"The enemy will meet first the bombs of the Air Force, and after that
the shells of the tanks and the artillery and the scoops of the D9
[bulldozers], and finally gunfire of the infantry troops," Israeli
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said
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"We will fight in the entire strip."

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