I will always insist that Israel be able to defend itself by itself against
any threat.
Clarification from PM Netanyahu: Security Requires IDF remains deployed
inside West Bank
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 29 September 2014


TODAY: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech at the United Nations
General Assembly
September 29, 2014

But it must be a genuine peace, one that is anchored in mutual recognition
and enduring security arrangements, rock solid security arrangements on the
ground. Because you see, Israel's withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza created
two militant Islamic enclaves on our borders from which tens of thousands of
rockets have been fired at Israel.
…
Israel cannot have territories from which it withdraws taken over by Islamic
militants yet again, as happened in Gaza and Lebanon.
…. That’s why in any peace agreement, which will obviously necessitate a
territorial compromise, I will always insist that Israel be able to defend
itself by itself against any threat.

CLARIFICATION: Address by PM Netanyahu at the Institute for National
Security Studies 29/06/2014
Translation
http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechINSS290614.aspx

...Maintaining the demilitarization of the Palestinian state must be in
Israel's hands. Otherwise, it will simply be unsustainable.

I believe that we must apply this updated concept to our arrangement with
the Palestinians: Palestinian political and economic control in the
territory governed by them, in parallel to Israeli security activity on the
ground in accordance with the operational requirements to ensure that the
territory is free of terrorist elements. The evacuation of Israel's forces
would most likely lead to the collapse the PA and the rise of radical
Islamic forces, just as it did in Gaza. It would also severely endanger the
State of Israel.

…Sovereignty can and should coexist with that. It should adapt itself to the
security needs. And the true security needs which are becoming clearer and
clearer and which you are currently discussing necessitate the continued
Israeli presence and security activity in the West Bank and along the Jordan
River. Those who fail to understand that ignore reality.
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