Netanyahu Claims Israeli Legitimacy Being Attacked!
24/06/2010 06:31:33 AM GMT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Wednesday that Israel's legitimacy is being attacked, during a Knesset discussion on Israel's collapsing international status.
"We know that the attacks on Israel are threatening its existence, since we constantly hear people saying 'go back to Poland or Morocco'. They are essentially telling us to dismantle the Zionist enterprise," he claimed.
Netanyahu went on to criticize the United Nations and other international institutions for "targeting Israel alone" for condemnation. "They want to strip us of the natural right to defend ourselves. When we defend ourselves against rocket attack, we are accused of war crimes. We cannot board sea vessels when our soldiers are being attacked and fired upon, because that is a war crime."
Netanyahu claimed that Israel has taken steps to push forward a resolution with the Palestinians though they have not reciprocated the gesture. "The Palestinian side promoted the Goldstone report, organized boycotts, and tried to prevent our entrance into the OECD. The Palestinian Authority has no intentions of engaging in direct talks with us," Netanyahu went on to say. "I call on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, yet again, to enter direct talks with us, because there is no other way to solve the conflict between us without direct dialogue. How could we possibly live side by side if they can't even enter the same room as us?"
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