NETANYAHU
"Israel does not accept the 15-point document. The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed. And we are talking about genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament."
"As long as I am prime minister, a Palestinian state will not be established, neither in Gaza nor in Judea and Samaria." — — same televised cabinet remarks, August 9
Trump calls the Board of Peace plan an achievement. On camera, at a cabinet table, Netanyahu rejected it and said he was repeating himself because people claimed he never said it the first time. That is the tell. For weeks Israel's refusal had been carried by anonymous officials, which let the plan be reported as alive. The press ran his correction for one day as a "rare public break," pinned it on the October 27 election, and moved on — without revisiting a single earlier story sourced to the ambiguity he had just destroyed. In June the press picked an anonymous account of a phone call over what both leaders published themselves. In August the prime minister had to say it twice on television to be heard over his own background channel.