International Crisis Group
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“Netanyahu continues to see a separate Palestinian state as a security threat against Israel, as a place from which groups like Hamas or Iran could launch rocket attacks. Ultimately he would like a two-state solution, but he envisions a Palestinian state that is much smaller. He doesn’t see the conditions for that result now.” —Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for Israel/Palestine, Ofer Zalzberg, to France24 on Israeli reluctance towards French Initiative