If Abbas had any sense, he would have accepted Netanyahu’s challenge. What does he care if he calls Israel a Jewish State? It would have forced Prime Minister Netanyahu to come to the negotiating table on all fours, having lost the chess game. Abbas could have had his cake and eat it too and still insist on flooding Israel with foreign Arabs because it is not his fault if Israel cannot keep itself Jewish.
But he didn’t, and he now has no chance of repenting because he has drilled the word “no” into the entire Arab world.
So with Abbas already in a corner, Netanyahu came up with another move to keep Abbas down if not out.
Abbas’ constant statements that not a single Jew would be allowed to live in a supposed Palestinian state, which would run counter to the United Nations and every measure of human rights, made him pudding for the “leak” that Netanyahu said Jews can live in the Palestinian Authority.
In less than 24 hours after the initial report, the office of the Prime Minister stated, “Nothing shows the Palestinian Authority’s unwillingness to reach an accord with Israel than their extreme and reckless reaction to an unofficial report. An accord will only be reached when the Palestinians recognized the Jewish state and when the essential interests to the security of Israeli citizens are guaranteed.”
Netanyahu scored a masterful victory on all fronts.
Most politicians and almost every journalist, foreign and local, hates Netanyahu, simply because he is smarter than they are, no one even gave the man credit for the first new idea in the “peace process” since it all started in Madrid in 1991.
But that doesn’t really matter anymore. Any government statement that Jews could live in a Palestinian state actually makes the possibility more impossible,
Abbas rejects it and puts himself further into the hole.
Bennett rejects it and proves that he is not going to Prime Minister.
The media can’t see past their noses, and the more they feed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the wrong information, the better off we are, because Kerry is next in line to be checkmated.