Mr Netanyahu responded by saying that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not a single state for both people, but a “demilitarised Palestinian state” that recognised Israel.
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“I would like to make it clear – Israel will not be a binational state”, Netanyahu told cabinet ministers at Sunday’s meeting.
Speaking at the Saban Forum of the Brookings Institution think-tank, held in Washington, Kerry questioned if Israel was prepared for the strategic, economic and security consequences of the possible scenario.
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at the COP21 World Climate Change Conference in France on November 30.
Mr Kerry said that the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must not become a “slogan”, and warned that current trends were leading towards a one-state reality. A soldier stepping off a nearby bus opened fire and killed the man, police said.
The vehicle involved in Sunday’s attack sits badly damaged on a Jersualem street.
Addressing Swedish lawmakers on Friday, Wallstrom denounced the nearly daily Palestinian knife, gun or car-ramming attacks but urged Israel to avoid excessive force.
The bloodshed has been fuelled by Muslim agitation over increased Jewish visits to East Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound – Islam’s third holiest site and also revered by Jews as the location of two biblical-era temples.
Since then, 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings and shootings.
Clinton also says that as president, she’d push Israelis and Palestinians toward a peace deal. Opposition politicians, intellectuals and retired military commanders are issuing increasingly strident warnings that never-ending violence awaits if Israel continues to occupy millions of angry Palestinians who can not vote in its national elections.
Some 500,000 Israelis have settled in the West Bank and East Jerusalem among 2.4 million Palestinians. However, as relations deteriorated in the 2000s and Israeli leaders demanded a reiteration, Palestinian leaders have resisted reasserting recognition of Israel as Jewish.
If it were to happen, Israel would be forced to assume all governance in the occupied West Bank, he said. Meanwhile, Islamic radicals are on the march across the region. They conclude that prudence requires holding onto the West Bank; the Palestinians must be satisfied with their autonomy zones set up under interim agreements in the 1990s.
A paper published two weeks ago by a major Israeli think tank proposed a new unilateral solution in which settlers would be pulled out of most of the West Bank to create a situation more amenable to partition.
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Tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue nonstop.
