Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Speech June-14 2009 "061409"

June 14 -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he is willing to support the creation of a Palestinian state, for the first time making a commitment that the United States, Europe and the Arab nations have pushed for since he took office.
But in a prime-time address delivered at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, he attached a weighty list of conditions dictated by his personal beliefs and by the need to satisfy his right-leaning coalition in the Israeli parliament: The Palestinian state would have to be demilitarized, with international guarantees that it remain so; it would have to cede control of its airspace to Israel; and it could be created only if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland.
President Obama welcomed Netanyahu's speech as an "important step forward" and in a statement endorsed both key Israeli and Palestinian concerns. "The President is committed to two states, a Jewish state of Israel and an independent Palestine, in the historic homeland of both peoples," the statement said. "He believes this solution can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfillment of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations for a viable state, and he welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal."
In his remarks, Netanyahu did not commit to a freeze. The West Bank, occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, is home to nearly 300,000 Jewish settlers.
Netanyahu insisted that Jerusalem would remain under the full control of Israel instead of becoming a joint capital -- issues that the Palestinians say should be negotiated.
In his speech, Netanyahu said the prospect of Hamas taking over the West Bank was one reason Israel must attach security conditions to the creation of a Palestinian state. He also said that, ultimately, the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would have to extend its control to Gaza and "defeat" Hamas.
It is clear that under the current situation with the Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza are sharply split, that a resolution of such problem will lie in a Fedrated Palastenian Federation between these two entities.