@5c8e0a6d @4a737d46 I simply can't trust Netanyahu. While his official position is to eliminate Hamas and liberate the hostages, I simply can't trust someone who has openly promised to do anything in his power to delay the implementation of the Oslo accords - and has managed to do so for two decades so far.

And he's in a coalition with Shas (Ovadia Yosef repeatedly cursed the Palestinians and call for the wrath of god against them), Tkuma (which opposes any territorial concessions to the Palestinians), and Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose has made it a political mission to harass anybody who isn't Jew - from provoking Muslims praying in mosques, to defending spitting at Christians as an "ancient Jewish tradition".

I mean, I don't have to see a Roman salute to recognize a fascist. I know that positions like those of Dror Eydar's aren't uncommon among those who currently hold power in Israel. I know that Netanyahu has to walk a thin line - on one side he has Western partners that can be easily alienated if he causes a humanitarian crisis on the doorstep of Europe, and on the other side he has internal pressures from his partners to cause exactly that type of crisis.

Of course he'll say that he only wants to liberate the hostages and neutralize Hamas. But it's not hard to imagine what he says when he talks to his partner - his off-the-record comments on the Oslo accords are a good example of that. 

 Do you have a source with his original comments?

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