In a video message posted on Netanyahu's FB account, the PM that he has "always been perplexed by the notion" that the "Jewish community in Judea and Samaria [the Israeli name for the West Bank] is an obstacle for peace."
He went on to imply that requesting the dismantlement of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestine territory constitutes an "outrageous demand" equivalent to a call for "ethnic cleansing."
"The Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews. There's a phrase for that: It's called ethnic cleansing," the Israeli prime minister said, pointing out that Israel with its Arab community of two million people, on the contrary, provides an example of "openness and readiness for peace."
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"In May of 1948, Zionist forces proclaimed the formation of a Jewish state in the Palestinians' country, a date Palestinians mark as the Nakba, or catastrophe. The Jewish state controlled 78 percent of Palestine. Many of the Palestinians whom Jewish terrorists had forced from their homes lived in refugee camps in the remaining 22 percent of their country. This was made up of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. In 1967, Zionist forces completed their military conquest of Palestine in toto, imposing military rule on parts of the Palestinians' country they had failed to conquer in 1948. Since then, Israel has engaged in a process of creeping Judaization of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, building Jewish-only settlements, connecting them by Jewish-only roads, and denying building permits to Palestinians."
Appealing to the intentional community, he urged all countries sharing Palestine's view to cease "promoting this outrage."
That call, however, did not find any support in Washington, which accused the Israeli PM of resorting to doublespeak.
Comment: Netenyahu's latest orwellian speech (have a sick bag handy):