Bayit Yehudi officials attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after the premier pledged to US President Barack Obama that Israel remained committed to establishing a Palestinian state.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, the Bayit Yehudi chairman, said that “those who are committed to war against Islamic State and Hamas can’t give them a state.”
“The idea of a Palestinian state flew airborne this past summer along with the missiles that were launched at Ben-Gurion Airport,” Bennett said. “It would be a good thing if we sobered up from the idea, and quickly.”
“Never has any official Israeli government institution, the Knesset, or the Likud approved the prime minister’s remarks regarding two states for two peoples,” Housing Minister Uri Ariel said. “Therefore the premier’s remarks do not bind the State of Israel, and hence they will never be realized.”