Source: www.slate.com - Thursday, March 19, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wasted no time in trying to walk back the rhetoric used in the closing days of his ultimately successful re-election campaign. Tellingly, he chose to do so in the American media, telling NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally than the United States.” This comes after a campaign that included a commercial arguing that Israel wouldn’t exist if it always listened to America, an allegation that U.S. money was driving high Arab turnout, and, of course, a speech to the U.S. Congress that infuriated the Obama administration and many Democrats. President Obama has not yet called to congratulate Netanyahu on his victory, and White House officials say Netanyahu’s campaign comments, which included a disavowal of Palestinian statehood, could lead to a “ reassessment ” of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. In the NBC interview, Netanyahu denied that he had changed his opinion on the two-state solution, telling Mitchell that the onus is on the Palestinians: “We need the conditions of recognition of a Jewish state and real security in order to have a realistic two-state solution. And I was talking about what is achievable and what is not achievable.” When Netanyahu was asked in an interview during the closing days of the campaign whether his stance meant that that there would be no Palestinian state as long as he was prime minister, he replied, “
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wasted no time in trying to walk back the rhetoric used in the closing days of his ultimately successful re-election campaign. Tellingly, he chose to do so in the American media, telling NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally than the United States.” This comes after a campaign that included a commercial arguing that Israel wouldn’t exist if it always listened to America, an allegation that U.S. money was driving high Arab turnout, and, of course, a speech to the U.S. Congress that infuriated the Obama administration and many Democrats. President Obama has not yet called to congratulate Netanyahu on his victory, and White House officials say Netanyahu’s campaign comments, which included a disavowal of Palestinian statehood, could lead to a “ reassessment ” of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. In the NBC interview, Netanyahu denied that he had changed his opinion on the two-state solution, telling Mitchell that the onus is on the Palestinians: “We need the conditions of recognition of a Jewish state and real security in order to have a realistic two-state solution. And I was talking about what is achievable and what is not achievable.” When Netanyahu was asked in an interview during the closing days of the campaign whether his stance meant that that there would be no Palestinian state as long as he was prime minister, he replied, “
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