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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing an earlier stance on Palestinian statehood, says he will never support a Palestinian state if he is returned to office in Tuesday's elections.
Netanyahu spoke1 a day before Israel's nearly 6 million voters go to the polls to decide whether the conservative Likud party leader will serve a fourth term as prime minister.
Trailing his center-left opponent Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog in opinion polls, the three-term leader has sought to shift the focus away from socioeconomic issues and on to security challenges, saying he alone can defend Israel.
Israeli PM Reverses Stance on Palestinian Statehood
Having previously2 hinted that he would accept a Palestinian state, Netanyahu reversed course on Monday, citing risks that he linked to the regional spread of Islamist militancy3. He said that if he is re-elected, the Palestinians would not get the independent state they seek in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
"Whoever moves to establish a Palestinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical4 Islamic terrorist attacks against Israel," he told the Israeli news site NRG.
Asked if that meant a state would not be established if he remained prime minister, he said: "Indeed."
Herzog, leader of Israel's Labor5 party, favors reviving peace talks with U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Herzog's centrist running mate, Tzipi Livni, was formerly6 a member of Netanyahu's conservative coalition7 government and handled negotiations8 with Abbas until they stalled last April.
Herzog and Livni have accused Netanyahu of playing up fears over the Palestinians and Iran's nuclear program to distract voters from the high cost of living and other social issues, which according to surveys are Israelis' principal concerns.
With neither Netanyahu or Herzog expected to win the 61-seat parliamentary majority, there has been a furious campaign push by the candidates to rally support from smaller groups ranging from communist and Arab-led parties to orthodox Jewish blocs9.
No single party has ever won an outright10 majority in the legislature, making coalitions11 the norm. Israel's president picks the political leader whom he believes has the best chance of forming a coalition to have a go first.
In that respect, Netanyahu's pledge, coupled with his visit to a prominent West Bank settlement earlier on Monday where he promised to go on building on occupied land, appeared designed to draw as much of the right-wing vote as possible.
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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n.warlike behavior or tendency | |
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n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的 | |
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n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦 | |
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协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过 | |
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adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的 | |
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结合体,同盟( coalition的名词复数 ); (两党或多党)联合政府 | |
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