Natanyah: "I didn't mean what I said 3 days ago"

1.  During his years as Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has given lip service to working toward a two-state solution. 

2.  On the eve of election day, when he seemed on the verge of losing, Netanyahu proclaimed that there will never be a state of Palestine while he is Prime Minister and that settlement building will continue.

3.  This had exactly the result he was aiming for.    Members of several small nationalistic or far right religious groups abandoned their own small parties to vote for Netanyahu's Likud party, giving it a margin of 5 seats over the Zionist Union party.

4.  Three days after the election, he announces that he didn't mean it.  Here's what he told Andrea Mitchell in an NBC interview:   "I haven't changed my policy. . . . "I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution."

What now?   How can anyone trust someone who so blatantly changes his story for the advantage of the moment -- and then doesn't have either the shame or the decency to bother trying to explain?

The Palestinians certainly won't trust him in any further attempts at peace-making.  They will go now to the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the world opinion, leading to possible boycotts, divestments, and sanctions.

It certainly justifies the United States reassessing our relationship and the extent to which we will continue using our Security Council veto to block any U.N. action that is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel.

Personally, I'm done with Netanyahu.    

Ralph