Israel's enemies are watching closely the elections results, PM Netanyahu asserted in the interview he gave over the weekend. "(They) want to know one thing, whether the
ruling party has grown or shrunk. They want a weak Israel, a divided one
and the most challenged country in the world must not be divided,"
Netanyahu told Channel Two's "Meet The Press".
Commenting on his opponents attacks attacking him for ruining ties with the US, by failing to give in to President Obama's demands in jump-starting the peace process, Netanyahu sounded defiant as ever.
“When they say, ‘Go back to the ’67 lines,’ I stand against. When they say, ‘Don’t build in Jerusalem,’ I stand against," he said.
He added: “It’s very easy to capitulate. I
could go back to the impossible to defend ’67 lines, and divide
Jerusalem, and we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my home.. It’s easy to do, and they’d applaud, They’d
applaud just like they applauded the parties (in the 2005 Israeli
government) that pulled out of Gaza. Those parties got applause, and we
got a rain of rockets.”
Netanyahu said that no matter what pressures
were applied, “I have to stand up for our vital interests… when speaking
in Congress, and at the UN.”