Stand along the support of First Party Member.

As in block-head. The 'national consensus on settlements'? You mean let's keep pretending there are o settle,ments and we are not occupiers. And what will that get us after the UN General Assembly vote in September? Instead of occupiers we'll be invaders - just like Saddam Hussein in Kuwait. Thanks blockheads.

There is no excuse for Israel to cede even another grain of our sand. This tiny land is ours. We have legal proof of it. It has been ours for thousands of years. Moreover, Israel would not be viable if we cede any more of our land. No more Israeli retreat. Period!

Netanyahu has no intent to offer anything that might be acceptable to anybody except Likud. He will offer no independence or sovereignty to Palestinians. His plan for the military presence in the Jordan Valley is just formalizing and making permanent the occupation, forever. Maybe he thinks the Rabin plan that appeared leftist in 1995 is something Palestinians would like. But that is 20 years past its expiration date and was only ever a half measure. Anything he offers will be a feint, nothing more.

we are talking very tangible issue here: OUR SOIL ! Bibi, stop being a "diplomat" and start being a simple Patriot. Sometimes one can be just too clever in one's maneouvering in life and politics... me think. Simple& True is GOOD!

It is OK for an ostrich to stick its head in the sand, pretending... Do not pretend, ben Josuf - NO MORE ISRAELI LAND FOR Falastyn - you had chances in the past and Arafat turned them down, because he REALLY wants to annihilate the Jewish state, and this is NOT going to happen !

"is" means. More of Bibi's games. They never end. Nor does Israel's isolation. So be the Prime Minister of Likud, Bibi, while the world isolates Israel. Mazel tov.

Sounds almost exactly like Clinton just after disclosure of his relationship with Monica hit the press. Did they go to school together?

He still wants to give away land for rockets.

All setllements in occupied territory violate article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention, of which Israel is a signatory. Seems like the only democracy in the Middle East is not too fussy when it comes to violating International Law in the interests of colonialism and territorial gain. They can call the settlements any name they choose, but they're still illegal.

Netanyahu has no intent to offer anything. If he did, he would have told Israelis. He didn't tell Israelis. He has no intention of offering the US or the Palestinians anything, not independence, not sovereignty and certainly not their own land.

it looks like he doesn't know what to do or say- he is running out of ideas- too many sides to please.....to he is stalling.

The phrase Nakba catastrophe seems to have lost its edge, but the Bibi catastrophe is well and truly coming to the fore now! When is bibi's time as PM up? Not too far away I hope!

You put your finger on it, Netanyahu has the skill to make everyone unhappy and give the feeling that he is untrustworthy. In his speech he betrayed his voters and Likud values by implying he would accept ethnic cleansing of more than 100000 Jews as well as other suicidal concessions. At the same time, his speech surrendered far less than the extreme-Left in Israel wants to give the Arabs. As for Israel's isolation, please give some credit to accused war criminals Olmert, Livni and Barak.

Article 49 of the GC does not apply to Y & S, as they were never the territory of a High Contracting Party; the occupation after 1948 by Jordan and Egypt was illegal and neither country ever had lawful or recognized sovereignty. The last legal sovereignty over the territories was that of the League of Nations Palestine Mandate which encouraged Jewish settlement of the land.