TELAVIV (Dispatches) -- The Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state after protests by far-right coalition allies over a U.S.-backed statement indicating support for a pathway to Palestinian independence.
Netanyahu spoke two days after Israel’s key ally the United States and many Muslim-majority nations allied with the U.S. endorsed a draft UN resolution backing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying the process offered a route to Palestinian statehood.
The 15-member UN Security Council began negotiations on Nov. 7 on the draft, which would mandate Trump’s proposal for a “Board of Peace” transitional administration in Gaza to address issues including post-war reconstruction and economic recovery.
Trump’s 20-point plan includes a clause saying that if there were reforms within the Palestinian Authority, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people”.
That point infuriated Israeli far-right leaders who had opposed the Trump-brokered October ceasefire in Gaza, testing Netanyahu’s awkward governing coalition of conservatives and Jewish extremists. 
Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday: “Our opposition to a Palestinian state in any territory has not changed. Gaza will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed, the easy way or the hard way. I do not need affirmations, tweets or lectures from anyone.”
A far-right walkout could bring down Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet well before the next election, which must be held by October 2026.
Israeli war minister Israel Katz and foreign minister Gideon Saar also issued statements on X against a Palestinian state on Sunday, without mentioning Netanyahu.
Ahead of his White House visit, Netanyahu said he would respond to a number of major Western nations including France that formally recognized a Palestinian state in September, angering regime, but has not followed up with any diplomatic actions.
Extremist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich had on Saturday accused Netanyahu of failing to live up to his promise and called on him to formulate a response immediately: “Two months have passed in which you have chosen silence and political disgrace.”
He urged Netanyahu to “make clear to the entire world (that) a Palestinian state will never arise on the lands of our homeland.”
Two years of intense Israeli brutally bombardment and genocidal ground offensives in the Gaza Strip killed more than 69,000 people, according to local health authorities.