(Newsmax) – Israel cannot be expected to accept a nuclear deal with Iran that would threaten its existence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview to be broadcast Thursday night on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File.”
“You can’t force the people of Israel, who’ve just elected me by a wide margin to bring them peace and security – to secure the state of Israel – to accept terms that would endanger the very survival of the state of Israel,” he said. “I don’t think that’s the direction of American policy. I hope it’s not.”
Netanyahu said in the final days of his re-election campaign that there would be no Palestinian state if voters returned him to office. Netanyahu’s Likud Party won handily, and an angry Obama administration said it might not block future U.N. attempts to vote for recognition of a Palestinian state.
In a preview of the interview released by Fox News, Netanyahu told host Megyn Kelly he hopes that isn’t true.
“I think that President Obama has said time and time again, and as I’ve said that the only path to a peace agreement is … a negotiated agreement. You can’t impose it,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also spoke with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday.
In that interview, Netanyahu said he has never changed his policy on a two-state solution, but said that circumstances have changed that currently make it unfeasible.
Palestinian leadership currently refuses to recognize the Jewish state, he said, adding that he worries a Palestinian state would be run by Islamic militants as many other Arab areas of the Middle East currently are.
“First of all, that state would become a terrorist state,” he said. “Iran says they will arm the West Bank the way they arm Gaza.
Mitchell also asked Netanyahu about accusations that American money was funneled into the election to defeat him.
The prime minister said that nongovernmental organizations from various outside countries participated in the effort to defeat him, but steered clear of accusing the United States government.
Former staff for President Barack Obama, including his 2008 online and grass-roots campaign strategist Jeremy Bird, were reportedly involved with the Victory 15 effort, whose slogan was “Anybody But Bibi,” a reference to Netanyahu’s nickname.
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