Netanyahu: I didn't mean what I said 3 days ago

[Lakhota]

Fresh off his party's victory in this week's parliamentary election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday walked back a statement from earlier this week in which he had ruled out a "two-state" solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"I haven't changed my policy," Netanyahu said Thursday in an interview with NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

"I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution," he added.

But just a few days earlier, in the midst of what then looked like an uphill battle for Netanyahu's Likud Party, the prime minister said that a two-state solution would never happen on his watch. “I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands, is giving attack grounds to the radical Islam against the state of Israel," he told an Israeli news website on Monday, one day before the Israeli election.

These comments contradicted a 2009 speech, in which Netanyahu endorsed the two-state approach as a way to attain peace in the region. In July 2014, however, Netanyahu made clear he had no interest in a fully sovereign Palestinian state.

Netanyahu added in Thursday's interview that if the current Palestinian territories did attain statehood, the result would be a "terrorist state" because the Palestinians would receive arms from Iran. As long as that was the case, he said, a two-state solution was not possible.

More: Netanyahu Back To Barely Pretending He Supports A Two-State Solution

Was he lying then - or is he lying now?

 

[JakeStarkey]

He's a politician, and of course he was lying then and now.

 

[fanger]

Both?

 

[edthecynic]

NaziYahoo ALWAYS lies, he is a CON$ervative.

 

[Lakhota]

At least his fear of losing caused him to show his true colors.

 

[1stRambo]

Yo, he told that bitch to shut up in the interview, LOVE IT!
GO BIBI!!!

"GTP"

 

[Rocko]

At least his fear of losing caused him to show his true colors.

And you show your true colors everyday with your asssine posts. Butthurt over the election much?

 

[Daniyel]

When the ' "Zionist" Camp' is about to sign with the unified list after they just denied Meretz for allegedly being "Zionists" and considering that past the current statement this is big part of Bibi spin over the other right wing parties and STILL Bibi scored big time with the Arab/Bedouin it is quite funny that you consider this as a lie and not a pure moment of truth which was changed rhetorically to fit the situation where millions of dollars and massive pre-election coalition is formed to DENY him from even possibly being RE-elected..meh lets just get down to the point, screw Kerry.

 

[Lipush]

He changes his mind repeatedly.

But so do Livni and Hertzog, for that matter.