Netanyahu tells Palestine: Don’t declare state

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

"Saying Israel could not accept a 'new Iraq or Iran' on its doorstep, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that Israel would retaliate if Palestinians declare a state before reaching a peace agreement. The Israeli leader, in one of his toughest statements yet on Palestinian statehood, refused to say what steps might be taken. The most likely option would be the annexation of disputed West Bank land by Israel."

Context added by this archive

Annexation, named as the threatened answer to a declaration of statehood, in 1998.

Cite this item

"Netanyahu tells Palestine: Don’t declare state," The Herald, 28 April 1998. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1998-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1998-002

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Palestinian freed after 6 years in Israeli jailJournal Tribune · 15 April 1998 · the same year
Netanyahu: No PalestineThe Atlanta Constitution · 8 May 1998 · the same year
Palestinian march broken up in JerusalemStamford Advocate · 15 May 1998 · the same year

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