(April 27, 2025 / JNS) The notion that a Palestinian state will produce peace is “folly, nothing more than folly,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday evening.
“I’m saying this for the ambassadors who are here—all of you know this. The idea is folly, nothing more than folly. We just tried a Palestinian state in Gaza,” said Netanyahu. “You saw what that brought, right?”
“I want to acknowledge Alex Traiman, CEO [of JNS], for the work that you do to, he said, to counter the konseptzia (Conception),” the premier opened his remarks, using the Hebrew word for the pre-Oct. 7 security concept.
“I said no, it’s not countering the konseptzia, it’s just to speak the truth. That’s what we need,” continued the longtime leader of the Jewish state. “You cannot build peace and security on lies. If you do so, sooner or later, these lies will crash on the realities of the Middle East.”