NEW YORK (VINnews) — British Defense Secretary, Grant Shapps, reacted sharply Sunday to comments by Israeli Prime Minister Binymamin Netanyahu rejecting the prospect of a Palestinian state. Shapps said the comments were “disappointing” and reiterated the UK’s commitment toward a two-state solution.
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Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Shapps said it was “disappointing to hear that from the Israeli Prime Minister.”
“There isn’t another option. The whole world has agreed that a two-state solution is the best way forward. The British government absolutely backs that as a solution,” Shapps claimed.
He added that a Palestinian state “needs to be sovereign on the Palestinian side” and to “provide security guarantees on the Israeli side.” Shapps argued that there “isn’t another obvious way out” out of the conflict in Gaza.
The British minister’s comments follow a report in CNN claiming that Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden in a Friday phone conversation that he is not ruling out the creation of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu also allegedly told the US President that his statements at a press conference held earlier this week “were not meant to foreclose that outcome in any form,” a person familiar with the conversation told CNN.
At the end of the conversation, Biden said, “there are a number of types of two-state solutions.”
Netanyahu’s office responded to the report, stressing that “In his conversation with President Biden, Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated his policy that after Hamas is destroyed, Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty.”
Israel has not referred to its own vision of what will occur in Gaza after the war, preferring instead to reject the notion that the Palestinian Authority or other local elements will take control of the Gaza strip.
Shapps has been supportive of Israel during its war against Hamas, saying recently that asking Israel to reach a ceasefire with Hamas is “untenable”, adding that Israel has “a right to go after” Hamas after its terrorists killed more than 1,200 people on October 7 and abducted 240 others.
We are disappointed in the UK for occupying Ireland and Scotland
So when will the UK be the occupation and returning Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland?
Why do Brits have rotten teeth ?
Maybe the IRA should bomb the hell out of the Brits kidnap over 200 of their citizens and then ask for half of Britain that’s rightfully theirs
What did the UK do to protect the Yidden in Chevron in 1929?
Oh, so terribly sorry England is disappointed.
Really?
I strongly suggest England re divide their territory and set up a palistinian state under English auspices.
That would be a truly noble gesture on the part of jolly ol England
Perfect solution for the English
You being a Defense Minister should be defending all people at Leicester Square, and if the British police are too busy, then you yourself need to intervene in person to defend people at Leicester Square a Defense personnel.
Schapps, the brilliant JEW should know better. It’s the Palestinians that object to a two-state solution more than Israel does!
To be fair, Bibi has rejected both annexation and a two-state solution. He simply does not know what he wants.