The prevailing assumption in this is that the problem that we have with the Palestinians is the absence of a Palestinian state. And if they were given a Palestinian state, they would stop the efforts to destroy the Jewish state. But The Palestinians were offered a state many times, including in the partition resolution, and they turned it down. They were offered statehood by my predecessors with lavish, lavish consistency. They turned it down because the Palestinians are not about creating a state. They're about destroying a state. (30:38–30:45)
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Asserts that Palestinians have been offered statehood multiple times and have rejected it.
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