Netanyahu says any future Palestinian state ‘would be a platform to destroy Israel’

By Christine Douglass-Williams | July 9, 2025

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Netanyahu is correct in saying that any future Palestinian state would be a platform to destroy Israel. “From the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea is the eternal chant of the Palestinians, who are mostly descended from Ottoman South Syrians, many left wandering after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Israel’s Arab neighbors and Arab nationalists in the Palestinian region resisted the formation of a tiny Jewish state in 1948 in even a tiny portion of the enormous region that had long ago been conquered by the sword via jihad. They formed the Palestinian National Charter, with treacherous wording to justify the annihilation of the Jewish state as an Islamic religious mission:

Article 6:

The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians.

Article 15:

The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab nation – peoples and governments – with the Arab people of Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral, and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine. It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.

Article 16:

The liberation of Palestine, from a spiritual point of view, will provide the Holy Land with an atmosphere of safety and tranquility, which in turn will safeguard the country’s religious sanctuaries and guarantee freedom of worship and of visit to all, without discrimination of race, color, language, or religion. Accordingly, the people of Palestine look to all spiritual forces in the world for support.

Mecca and Medina weren’t enough for them. They wanted the Jewish homeland too. And their extended vision is “globalize the intifada”. This represents the continued mission of global conquest. It is why the Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls the Palestinian issue central to the Muslim ummah.

Article 19:
The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations; particularly the right to self-determination.

Article 20:
The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void…

Conquering territory bit by bit via deception, propaganda and by the sword is how jihadists operate. They have had impressive successes over 1,400 years, while in the modern age somehow managing to convince people that Islam is a religion of peace. Israel has learned that it should never have surrendered land for peace, since conquest, not peace, is the real mission of the Palestinian “resistance.”

In Netanyahu’s words: “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.”

Israel stands at the front line of the global jihad.

“Netanyahu says any future Palestinian state would be a platform to destroy Israel,” Reuters, June 7, 2025:

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he wanted peace with Palestinians but described any future independent state as a platform to destroy Israel and for that reason sovereign power of security must remain with Israel.

Speaking at the White House, where he met U.S. President Donald Trump, Netanyahu described the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, where Hamas was in control, as evidence of what Palestinians would do with a state.

Trump said, “I don’t know” when he was asked by reporters if a two-state solution was possible and referred the question to Netanyahu.

Netanyahu said: “I think the Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten us. That means a sovereign power, like overall security, will always remain in our hands.”

Later he added: “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 neighbours, 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,” Netanyahu said….