Prime Minister Netanyahu's Conditions for the Establishment of a Palestinian State

I am inclined to believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu's prequisites for the establishment of a Palestinian nation-state, are merely platitudes which are designed as an attempt to diffuse the criticism of Israeli positions that have been on the rise within United States and United Kingdom.

If Prime Minister Neatanyahu and his coalition believe that Palestians especially the memmbers of Hamas and Fatah would accept the conditions that Prime Minister Netanyahu elucidated on in his address to Bar-Ilan University, then they have deluded themselves.

Only a fatuous idiot would think that Palestinans would disarm in order to achieve the creation of state. History has demonstrated that the majority of such states ultimately fail. Indeed the Palestinians could argue that any agreement to such a condition would constitute an abdication of their responsibility to provide for the protection and defense of the Palestinian people.