The issue is that Israeli voters put him over the top after he said there would not be a Palestinian state.
That is what makes a Palestinian state impossible under the current conditions. That is why Netanyahu made his statement against a Palestinian state--he knew he had to if he wanted to win the election. And that is what will force the US and EU to change their approach if indeed they are interested in a two-state solution.
Philosopher and liberal zionist Stanley Fleischacker (now broken-hearted) put it this way:
Set aside the Joint List, for which very few Jews (and virtually no Zionist Jews), voted. Of the remaining 106 Knesset seats, 67 went to parties that either actively agree with Netanyahu or are indifferent enough to his views on this issue that they are willing to sit in coalition with him. Which is to say: about TWO-THIRDS of the Jewish vote essentially said, “We are happy to end the peace process and instead rule over millions of Palestinians indefinitely; we are happy to have them have no vote, ever, either in their own state or in ours.” Which is to say, in what turned out to be as close to a referendum on the peace process and the two-state solution as we are ever likely to get, two-thirds of Israel’s Jews have just voted for the undemocratic version of the one-state solution: Israel has become, this week, the Herrenvolk ethnocracy its detractors have accused it of long being.
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While I agree with much of this excellent diary currently on the rec list, I think it's important to keep in mind that Netanyahu, a lying politician, gave the Israeli people what they wanted. I think it's high time we liberals recognize that Israel on the whole has shifted drastically to the right, and that there is no "Israeli left" that is going to "save Israel."
Time to move on and not just stop supporting, but actively work to end, the ongoing atrocity of Israel/Palestine.
That means:
Working to have AIPAC listed as a foreign agent
Working to remove tax breaks for "charitable" contributions by Americans to illegal settlements
Working to reduce and/or end the billions in aid we send to Israel and Egypt
Supporting the President in his talks with Iran
Supporting the Palestinians in their bids to the International Criminal Court and the United Nations
Supporting the Palestinians by boycotting Israeli goods
Supporting the President should he make any major steps to pressure Israel
Boycott, Divest, Sanction