Israeli PM vows expanded settlements, rejecting global recognition of Palestine.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “There will be no Palestinian state. The response to the latest attempt to force upon us a terror state in the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States.”
“I have a clear message to those leaders who are recognizing a Palestinian state after the horrendous October 7 massacre: You are rewarding terror with an enormous prize.
And I have another message for you: It’s not going to happen. There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River.
For years, I have prevented the creation of that terror state, against tremendous pressure, both domestic and from abroad.
We have done this with determination and with astute statesmanship. Moreover, we have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, and we will continue on this path”.
The declaration by Netanyahu that there shall never be a Palestinian state is not merely a political defiance—it is a philosophical position, a strategic doctrine, and a moral conviction articulated in the sternest language by Prime Minister Netanyahu. To him, the issue is not one of borders or maps, but of existence, legitimacy, and survival. Those who imagine that a Palestinian state can be conjured into being through diplomatic recognitions and UN resolutions commit a grave misreading of reality: a state cannot be established upon the ruins of terror, nor can sovereignty grow from the soil watered by the blood of massacres.
The vision of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River has long been presented as a compromise, a supposed key to peace. Yet Netanyahu insists it is nothing of the sort—it is, in essence, the institutionalization of perpetual hostility against Israel. He frames recognition not as an act of justice, but as a perverse reward, a gift to those who orchestrated October 7 and its horrors. In his view, to recognize Palestine now is to announce that murder yields legitimacy, that terror has political dividends, that violence is an acceptable path to sovereignty. Such a precedent would not only embolden Israel’s adversaries but also degrade the moral fabric of the international system.
Netanyahu’s stance draws strength from a simple logic: the Jewish state, hard-fought and defended against annihilation from its inception, cannot concede its security for the sake of a neighbor who denies its right to exist. A Palestinian state, he argues, would not be a partner in peace but a forward base for aggression, a dagger embedded in Israel’s heartland. The West Bank would not be a cradle of coexistence but a launchpad for rockets, tunnels, and kidnappings. In this framing, sovereignty for Palestine is indistinguishable from sovereignty for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and all forces sworn to Israel’s destruction. Thus, opposition is not obstinacy but self-preservation.
Moreover, Netanyahu invokes history. For decades, immense pressure from foreign capitals has pressed Israel toward concessions—yet time has vindicated resistance. Israel has endured by defying premature peace plans, by refusing to sanctify illusions, and by pursuing the tangible work of settlement, security, and deterrence. The expansion of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria, which he boasts has doubled under his leadership, is not merely demographic policy but a declaration of permanence: this land, disputed in rhetoric but lived in daily, is indivisible from the state of Israel.
The international chorus that now rises—Britain, Canada, Australia, Portugal, and soon France—may believe it is paving a path to reconciliation. Netanyahu reads it differently: as an attempt to impose by decree what reality itself has rejected, a unilateral rewriting of history that sidelines Israel’s fundamental security. In his eyes, this is not diplomacy but delusion, not progress but capitulation to terror. Recognition without reconciliation, sovereignty without responsibility, statehood without peace—these, he argues, are mirages that only prolong bloodshed.
The world may clamor for a two-state solution, but Netanyahu’s message is crystalline: Israel will not barter its survival for applause in the UN General Assembly. Statehood cannot be conferred as a prize; it must be earned through renunciation of violence, acceptance of coexistence, and recognition of the Jewish state’s legitimacy. Until that day—if it ever comes—Palestinian statehood remains not a future deferred but a future denied. For Israel, to yield on this matter is to court annihilation; to resist it is to ensure endurance. And thus Netanyahu’s defiance is not the rhetoric of extremity but the logic of survival: there will be no Palestinian state.
Date: 21.09.2025
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