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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hastily backtracked on an inflammatory statement by his Likud party today.
An aide denied that Mr Netanyahu had reneged on a 2009 speech acknowledging the need for a Palestinian state.
Over the weekend a pamphlet distributed in Israeli synagogues featured a response by Likud claiming that “the Prime Minister has announced to the public that the Bar Ilan speech is void.”
The speech was the first time Mr Netanyahu recognised the need for a Palestinian state as part of a peace accord.
The pamphlet also characterised Mr Netanyahu’s political life as a “fight against the creation of a Palestinian state.”
Mr Netanyahu “never said such a thing,” his spokesman claimed. But he added that the time was not right for territorial concessions.
“Netanyahu has been stressing that … any territory handed over will be seized by extremist Islamist elements,” he said.
