Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a newly aired interview that he will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state — even if it comes at the expense of normalization with Saudi Arabia — calling such a state “an existential threat to Israel.”
“There will not be a Palestinian state. It’s very simple: it will not be established,” Netanyahu said in an interview with the Abu Ali Express Telegram channel. “The answer is: a Palestinian state will not be established. It is an existential threat to Israel.”
Netanyahu also addressed concerns over the U.S. decision to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, announced this week by President Donald Trump. He said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally assured him that Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME) would remain fully protected.
“Regarding the F-35, I had a long conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reiterated his commitment that the United States will continue to preserve Israel’s qualitative military edge in everything related to supplying weapons and military systems to countries in the Middle East,” Netanyahu said.
He added that the U.S. is “committed to maintaining Israel’s qualitative edge in all areas, including Israel’s advantage regarding the supply of F-35 aircraft,” noting that this advantage is guaranteed under U.S. law.
“Beyond that, I prefer not to elaborate,” the prime minister concluded.
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The international force that will administer Gaza under the current plan is not going to stay there on a long term basis. Instead the plan calls for handing it over to the PA when certain reforms are implemented, and because those countries will have no desire to stay there forever it will be up to them to decide when to hand it over to the PA. Once that happens the main reason that Palestine could not be considered a state, because it didn’t have a single government over all of its territory will no longer exist. So whether a Palestinian state comes into being is not up to Netanyahu, instead its up to the same hashgacha that thus far has prevented it over and over from happening.