Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives hit back on Friday over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments that seemed to rule out the creation of a future Palestinian state.
“We strongly disagree with the prime minister,” 15 members of Congress said in a brief statement. “A two-state solution is the path forward.”
Signatories included Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Netanyahu has faced criticism in Congress and from the Biden administration after he said in a televised address on Thursday that “Israel must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan,” as the New York Times translated it.
Some media outlets and activist groups also promoted an incorrect live translation of the same statement made by an Israeli news channel that Netanyahu had said Israel had to control all territory “from the river to the sea.”
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), one of the signatories of Friday’s statement who is widely regarded as one of the most vocally pro-Israel Democrats in Congress, was even more forcefully critical of Netanyahu in his comments.
Non-Jewish supporters of Israel on Capitol Hill have also voiced support for a two-state solution in the wake of Netanyahu’s comments.
“I am under no illusion that a two-state solution will happen in the immediate future but to assert that it should never happen—that either Jews or Palestinians should never have self-determination—is morally wrong,” wrote Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)
The Biden administration also reiterated its disagreement on Thursday with Netanyahu over a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
4 comments:
Hmmm, we gave them a state in 2005 and here we are now. The Democrat solution? Give them another one!
Here is the dilemma: Netanyahu does not agree with the two-state solution, but Hamas is actually much more conciliatory and is amenable to a two-state solution. If a Palestinian state were to be established from the Jordan River to the Mediterrian Sea, Hamas will accept a Jewish State....in the Sea, preferably at the bottom of the Sea.
And Stinkin' Blinken, the Jewish Nazi collaborator, thinks that's a good idea. Y"SH'V.
Yeh blame Natanyahu, why ? The Palestinians, Hamas etc have made it very clear they do not want a two state solution, they just want Israel gone
Well, ya know ...
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