Israeli Channel 10 presented this video: “The Real
AND Deceitful Face of Binyamin Netanyahu.” Broadcast on Friday night, July 9,
2010 on This Week with Miki Rosenthal.
It was filmed secretly in 2001, during a visit by
Citizen Netanyahu to the home of a bereaved family in the settlement of Ofra,
and it should be seen by everyone.
Netanyahu says what he really thinks for the first
time: He brags about how easy it is to manipulate the USA and he proudly
explains how he sabotaged the Oslo process.
The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s
knowledge, nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started
reinvading the main cities of the West Bank to crush Palestinian resistance in
the early stages of the second intifada.
On a visit to a home in the settlement of Ofra in the West Bank to
pay condolences to the family of a man killed in a Palestinian shooting attack,
he makes a series of unguarded admissions about his first period as prime
minister, from 1996 to 1999.
Seated on a sofa in the
house, he tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill
Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords,
The Oslo accords, the
US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, were to be
implemented by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank. Netanyahu was
actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the
Oslo process.
1.
Netanyahu: Turn off the camera so that we can
elaborate on this.
2.
Narrator: A few minutes later... the camera is
turned on again and Netanyahu begins to speak without quotation marks and
without masks
3.
Netanyahu: Now we’re beginning to understand the
meaning of the slogan ‘Yesha Zeikan Judea, Samaria, and Azza are here’ Yesha is
everywhere, what is the difference. What does Arafat want? He wants one big
settlement [implies Palestinians see all of Israel as a settlement].
4.
Woman: Yes that’s what my daughter in law who
came from England says [i.e. they, Palestinians, see Tel Aviv as a settlement
also].
5.
Netanyahu: Tel Aviv is also a settlement. From
their point of view [Palestinians], our territorial waters are also theirs. The
fact is that they want us in the sea. Over there... [gestures] in the distant
water. The Arabs now are preparing for a campaign [or war] of terror, and they
think that this will break us. The main thing is, first and foremost, to hit
them hard. Not just one hit... but many painful, so that the price will be
unbearable. The price is not unbearable, now. A total assault on the
Palestinian Authority. To bring them to a state of panic that everything is
collapsing. ...fear that everything will collapse... this is what we’ll bring
them to...
6.
Woman interrupts: But wait a minute, at that point the whole
world will say ‘What are you occupiers?’
7.
Netanyahu: The world will say nothing. The world will say
that we are defending ourselves.
8.
Woman: Aren’t you afraid of the world Bibi?
9.
Netanyahu: No
10.
Netanyahu: Especially now, with America, I know
what America is. America is a thing that can be easily moved. ...moved in the
right direction. They [Americans] will not bother us. Let’s suppose that they
[Americans] will say something [to us - Israelis]... so they say it... [so
what?] 80%
of the Americans support us. It’s absurd! We have such [great] support
there! And we say... what shall we do with this [support]? Look, the other
administration (that of Clinton) was pro-Palestinian in an extreme way. I was
not afraid to manuever there. I did not fear confrontation with Clinton. I was
not afraid to clash with the U.N. As it is, I am paying the price in the
international arena. So I might as well receive something of equal value in
exchange.
11.
Child: But never mind that. We gave them things,
and we can?t take them back. Because they won?t give them back to us.
12.
Netanyahu: [Gestures for child to let him speak]
First of all, Oslo is a system [or package of things]. You’re right, a) I do
not know what can and cannot be taken back [from Palestinians]
13.
Woman: He has political opinions, believe me.
14.
Netanyahu: He’s right.
15.
Woman: He said such things to Arik Sharon that I
told him: that’s not? that’s not a child’s opinion. The Oslo Accords are a
disaster.
16.
Netanyahu: Yes, I know that and you know that...
but the people need to know
17.
Woman: Right. But I thought that the prime
minister did know, and that he’d do everything so that, somehow, not to do
critical things, like handing over Hebron, that?
18.
Netanyahu: What were the Oslo Accords? The Oslo
Accords, which the Knesset signed, I was asked, before the elections: ‘Will you
act according to them?’ and I answered: ‘Yes, subject to reciprocity and
limiting the withdrawals.’ But how do you limit the withdrawals? I interpret
the accords in such a way that will enable me to stop this rush toward ‘67
borders [returning to armistice line]. [So...] how do we do it?
19.
Narrator: The Oslo Accords stated at the time
that Israel would gradually hand over territories to the Palestinians in three
different stages, unless the territories in question had settlements or
military sites. This is where Netanyahu found a loophole.
20.
Netanyahu: No one said what defined military
sites. Defined military sites, I said, were security zones. As far as I’m
concerned, the Jordan Valley is a defined military site.
21.
Woman: Right [laughs]. The Beit She?an
settlements. The Beit She?an Valley.
22.
Netanyahu: How can you tell. How can you tell?
But then the question came up of just who would define what Defined Military Sites
were. I received a letter to me and to Arafat, at the same time, which said
that Israel, and only Israel, would be the one to define what those are, the
location of those military sites and their size. Now, they did not want to give
me that letter, so I did not give the Hebron Agreement. I stopped the
government meeting, I said: I’m not signing. Only when the letter came, in the
course of the meeting, to me and to Arafat, only then did I sign the Hebron
Agreement. Or rather, ratify it, it had already been signed. Why does this
matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo Accord.
23.
Woman interrupts: And despite that, one of our
own people, excuse me, who knew it was a swindle, and that we were going to
commit suicide with the Oslo Accord, gives them ? for example ? Hebron. I never
understood that.
24.
Netanyahu: Indeed, Hebron hurts. It hurts. It’s
the thing that hurts. One of the famous rabbis, whom I very much respect, a
rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, he said to me: ?What would your father say? I went to
my father. Do you know a little about my father’s position?
25.
Woman: Yes.
26.
Child: No. [laughs]
27.
Woman: He’ll read in a little while.
28.
Netanyahu: He?s not exactly a lily-white dove,
as they say. So my father heard the question and said: ‘Tell the rabbi that
your grandfather, Rabbi
Natan Milikowski, was a smart Jew. Tell him it would be better to give
two percent than to give a hundred percent. And that?s the choice here. You
gave two percent and in that way you stopped the withdrawal. Instead of a
hundred percent.’
29.
Netanyahu: The trick is not to be there and break
down. The trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.
30.
Woman: May you say that as prime minister.
31.
Netanyahu: In my estimation that will happen.
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