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Netanyahu: No Palestinian State without "Destroying Fanaticism"
(CBS News) Tucker Reals - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday that the conditions of President Trump's peace plan "are very clear - it's not only that we get the hostages out without getting our military out, but that we would subsequently have both demilitarization and disarmament. They're not the same thing. First, Hamas has to give up its arms. And second, you want to make sure that there are no weapons factories inside Gaza. There's no smuggling of weapons into Gaza." Asked who is going to govern Gaza if the war ends, Netanyahu replied, "This is a transitional period and we want to fashion a governance that works - that is not made of people who are committed to our destruction. Because if we...put them there, then we just repeat it again and again and again. And we don't want to have the October 7th massacre repeated." "There are Gazans who are fighting Hamas and are saying, 'we don't want this anymore'...a lot of people in Gaza now know that Hamas has brought catastrophic consequences to them because of its fanaticism. The most important thing in destroying fanaticism is to destroy a certain hope, the hope that the fanaticism will achieve its results. When people know Israel is here to stay, they're not going to destroy the Jewish state." "The Palestinians should have all the powers...to govern themselves, but they can't have the powers to threaten our survival....Otherwise, the jihadists take over. Iran takes over immediately. And that's what happened every time we vacated territory - the most extreme fanatics came in." "If you had Palestinian governance that stopped teaching their kids to destroy the state of Israel...and they educate them for peace, then I think you can have a different reality," but it "could take generations" to get to that point.