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Netanyahu: Any Future Palestinian State Would Be a Platform to Destroy Israel
(Reuters) Speaking at the White House on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "I think the Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten us. That means sovereign power, like overall security, will always remain in our hands." "After October 7th, people said the Palestinians have a state, a Hamas state in Gaza, and look what they did with it. They didn't build it up. They built down into bunkers, into terror tunnels, after which they massacred our people, raped our women, beheaded our men, invaded our cities and our towns, our kibbutzim, and did horrendous massacres, the kind of which we didn't see since World War Two and the Nazis, the Holocaust. So people aren't likely to say, 'Let's just give them another state.' It'll be a platform to destroy Israel." "We will work out a peace with our Palestinian neighbors, those who don't want to destroy us, and we will work out a peace in which our security, the sovereign power of security, always remains in our hands. Now people will say, 'It's not a complete state, it's not a state, it's not that.' We don't care. We vowed: never again. Never again is now. It's not going to happen again."