While many International leaders have expressed interest in creating a Palestinian state for the sake of peace, few real options of actualizing this interest seem to exist.
Rather than "award" the Palestinians a state, Hamas must come "crawling and begging" for a hostage deal after being completely defeated, Eliyahu said.
Any unilaterally imposed recognition of a Palestinian state by the international community would be tantamount to undermining this final clause of the Oslo Accords.
Ministers from Netanyahu's Likud Party, as well as from the Religious Zionist Party (RZP) and Otzma Yehudit, criticized the language, as it did not rule out a Palestinian state in general.
The immediate release of terrorists incarcerated by Israel has remained a repeated demand by Hamas and recently, it added Barghouti to the list of those who must be freed.
While Israel has disavowed the creation of a unilateral Palestinian state, the US hopes for a future demilitarized Palestinian state living in peace with Israel
“Israel outright rejects international dictates regarding a final status agreement with the Palestinians," the government said in a statement.
One example of Haass's proposed strategy for navigating the Israel-Hamas conflict is for Biden to deliver a speech outlining the intentions of the war before the Israeli Knesset.
The decision comes after South Africa asked the World Court to consider whether Israel's plan to extend its offensive in Gaza into the city of Rafah requires additional emergency measures.
The United States and European countries have mostly held that Palestinian statehood recognition should be granted only once there is a final arrangement for a two-state resolution to the conflict.
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