Avi Perry: Was Netanyahu right to rebuff Obama?

In his latest speech to the American Congress, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state.

Netanyahu added that as long as the Palestinian Arabs continue to perpetuate their fantasy that the Jewish state will cease to exist, there could be no peace between them and Israel.

He was right.

The conflict is not about the pre-1967 borders with mutually agreed territorial swaps. It has always been about the pre-1947 border - when there was none.

The Palestinians have been unwilling to end the conflict. Had they been interested in a peaceful two-state  solution, they would have abandoned their demand for the right of return; they would have agreed to settle the refugee problem within the confines of an  independent, occupation-free Palestinian state. They would have stopped educating their children to hate. They would have ceased naming public squares after terrorists; they would not have fired anti-tank missiles on Israeli school busses, rockets and mortar on civilians, or (even) on the Israeli military; they would have worked tirelessly to gain Israel’s trust.

But they've done nothing of the sort.

Read the rest of this important piece in The Jerusalem Post.