Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu says he believes in the Palestinians' right to self governance, The Washington Post has reported.

In his first interview with the foreign media since he was chosen to head Israel's next government, the Likud chair told The Washington Post: "I think there is broad agreement inside Israel and outside that the Palestinians should have the ability to govern their lives but not to threaten ours."

Netanyahu further said he would continue peace talks with the Palestinians, while at the same time advancing "the economic development that has begun" in the Palestinian Authority.
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The Likud chair added: "I personally intend to take charge of a government committee that will regularly address the needs of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank."

Asked about Israel's achievements in its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip and whether he thought that Hamas should be toppled, Netanyahu said only that "Hamas is incompatible with peace."

"I hope that the Palestinians in Gaza find the ability to change this regime because we want to have peace with all the Palestinians. Right now, what we should do is enable humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza but not in such a way as it enables Hamas to buy more rockets."

During his interview, Netanyahu referred to recent reports about future dialogue between Israel and Syria, saying "Syria so far has been talking peace but has enabled Hezbollah to arm itself in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions."

"I would talk to Syria about abandoning these courses of action and building confidence that they really want to move toward peace. So far they're not giving that impression," he said.

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* http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067520.htm

“-they really want to move toward peace-”
Oh really. This from the CIA serpent, Netanyahu.
As long as israel continues to threaten its neighbors and terrorize its starved and trapped prisoner population, we can only expect the peace of the mass grave for the final Palestinian Solution.
Words and deeds are two separate things, as the siege goes on and on and on. While words are said and the people of Palestine die in misery, alone against the words and deeds of the israeli state and its ‘ Two State Solution.’ which only gives isreal an excuse for control, blockade and victimization to the ‘other’ state.
What the state of israel needs to do is abolish its ‘Self Determination’ pogrom and establish equal rights for all its people, regardless of ethnic and religious factors.
Everything else is word goulash and hypocrisy.
If not for the wail of grief, this press release from Netanyahu would be ridiculous and laughable.

Yvonne Green is a poet, an English Jew, and a frequent visitor to Israel.

"Deeply disturbed by the reports of wanton slaughter and destruction during Operation Cast Lead, I felt I had to see for myself. I flew to Tel Aviv and on Wednesday, January 28, using my press card to cross the Erez checkpoint, I walked across the border into Gaza..."

What she saw may puzzle you.

What she saw contradicted media reports, UNRWA claims, Hamas propaganda, and even the stories she was told by local witnesses.

The Gaza I saw was societally intact. There were no homeless, walking wounded, hungry or underdressed people. The streets were busy, shops were hung with embroidered dresses and gigantic cooking pots, the markets were full of fresh meat and beautiful produce - the red radishes were bigger than grapefruits. Mothers accompanied by a 13-year-old boy told me they were bored of leaving home to sit on rubble all day to tell the press how they'd survived. Women graduates I met in Sajaya spoke of education as power as old men watched over them.

No one praised their government as they showed me the sites of tunnels where fighters had melted away. No one declared Hamas victorious for creating a forced civilian front line as they showed me the remains of booby trapped homes and schools.

From what I saw and was told in Gaza, Operation Cast Lead pinpointed a totalitarian regime's power bases and largely neutralized Hamas's plans to make Israel its tool for the sacrifice of civilian life.

Corroboration of my account may be found in tardy and piecemeal retractions of claims concerning the UNWRA school at Al-Fakhora; an isolated acknowledgment that Gaza is substantially intact by The New York Times; Internet media watch corrections; and the unresolved discrepancy between the alleged wounded and their unreported whereabouts.

International donors have pledged $4.48 billion, in addition to money already pledged to the world's greatest welfare society, to a Gaza that is largely intact.

Yes we all know that Gaza is a pleasure resort for welfare beggers; at least in the eyes of the zionist pshchopath.
The kind of creature who assigns the blame of their own actions to the victims of these actions. Meanwhile covering the facts on the ground with truckloads of bull shit and denial.

One can see the denigration and smearing of a people who endure the brutality and sniggering superiority these apologists for genocide, heap upon us.
Meanwhile the siege goes on. And a people subjected to the many decades of slaughter and forced relocation, still live and survive.