Binyamin Netanyahu explains why impossible to limit sovereign Palestinian state

Dr. Aaron Lerner
Date: 20 June 2009

“One has to understand that sovereignty has its own independent power. Even
if an agreement is signed that ostensibly limits or cuts out such
authorities, within a short period the Palestinian state will demand all of
these rights and will also exercise them. And it doesn’t matter if we agree
to it or do not agree to it….

…The world will not stop a Palestinian state from taking upon itself all the
authority in its power to destroy the State of Israel. But it will
interfere with us when we want to deny them these authorities.. Look what
is already happening today under the limited regime of Arafat. The
Palestinians remove every limitation put on them in Oslo. They smuggle
weapons, they pollute the water sources, they build an army, they enter into
military arrangements with Iran, and not just with Iran, and instead of
fighting terror they create it. And then we act. And when we enter Area A
in order to fight the terror, the entire world is upset. Look what happened
in Jenin. They form investigatory committees against us. Not them.

…My friends, in existential matters, we always did what was necessary. We
always said clear things. Even when many in the world disagreed with us.
Because at the end of the day, the judgment of history is clear: saying yes
for a Palestinian sate means no for a Jewish state and yes for a Jewish
sate – means no for a Palestinians State.”

Binyamin Netanyahu 12 May 2002 speaking at the Likud Central Committee
before it voted to oppose a Palestinian state.