Can Netanyahu Avoid Palestinian State Recognition?

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00:00And Jonathan, the U.S. draft resolution raises the possibility of a Palestinian state.

00:06Israel's prime minister is under immense pressure from his far-right coalition to denounce this.

00:14How much wiggle room does Netanyahu have with the international community,

00:19and of course Donald Trump, in avoiding recognizing a Palestinian state?

00:24Yeah, that's a fundamentally accurate question there, Kellyanne.

00:28The issue here is that Israeli society is, of course, traumatized by what had happened on October 7th,

00:36and there isn't this, you know, groundswelling desire to see a Palestinian state next door

00:42as a reward for essentially carrying out atrocities and, you know, killing their citizens

00:48and Hamas vowing to continue that type of campaign until Israel is destroyed.

00:53So tremendous, you know, concern within the Israeli population.

00:59Indeed, Prime Minister Netanyahu has cabinet members who are ultra-nationalists

01:05and don't ever want to see any sort of Palestinian state,

01:09don't even believe that there is ideological grounds for a Palestinian state,

01:15don't believe that there ever was and ever will be,

01:19and that's the position that they have.

01:22The basic truth, though, is that the situation is such that the international community is exhausted

01:29after seeing the horrors of what has befallen the Israelis and the Gazans

01:34as a result of two years of grinding war,

01:39and really want to see some sort of resolution here

01:42and a way forward for these two peoples to coexist.

01:47So Prime Minister Netanyahu really doesn't have much in terms of ability at this juncture,

01:55especially now that the resolution which the United States is pushing is likely to be passed,

02:02and it's legally bound by the Security Council.

02:06So this idea that there is an opportunity for the Palestinians to have sovereignty

02:11and ultimately a state should all work out well,

02:15that's nothing that Netanyahu can really stop at this juncture.