--- description: The Israeli Prime Minister made the comments the day before Israel's elections title: Israel: Netanyahu Says No Palestinian State If He Wins Re-Election image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3951593252267212/698783d4f887dcc23ce8a9e7/benjamin-netanyahu3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Netanyahu Vows No Palestinian State While He's Prime Minister  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2015 6:51 PM CUT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a campaign meeting with members of Israel's French-Jewish community on March 10, 2015, in Netanya, Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a campaign meeting with members of Israel's French-Jewish community on March 10, 2015, in Netanya, IsraelJack Guez—AFP/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2015 6:51 PM CUT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared there will be not be a Palestinian state so long as he is Prime Minister, reversing his prior support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the eve of Israel’s parliamentary elections. “I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands, is giving attack grounds to the radical Islam against the state of Israel,” the three-term Prime Minister said, according to [the New York _Times_ translation](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-campaign-settlement.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined") of the interview posted to website [NRG](http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/683/880.html?hp=1&cat=404&loc=1 "undefined") on Monday. When the reporter asked if that meant he would not establish a Palestinian state were he to win re-election, Netanyahu replied, “Correct.” Netanyahu, whose Likud party is trailing behind the center-left Zionist Union alliance, once expressed support for the idea of two-state solution in a 2009 speech. [Read more at the New York _Times_.](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-campaign-settlement.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3746427/netanyahu-no-palestinian-state/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3746427/netanyahu-no-palestinian-state/"},"headline":"Netanyahu Vows No Palestinian State While He's Prime Minister","datePublished":"2015-03-16T18:51:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:11:49.505Z","description":"Reverses earlier support of two-state solution on eve of general elections","url":"https://time.com/3746427/netanyahu-no-palestinian-state/","keywords":["Israel","Benjamin Netanyahu","Gaza and the West Bank"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3951593252267212/698783d4f887dcc23ce8a9e7/benjamin-netanyahu3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3951593252267212/698783d4f887dcc23ce8a9e7/benjamin-netanyahu3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ISRAEL-POLITICS-VOTE-NETANYAHU-FRANCE-JEWS","caption":"ISRAEL-POLITICS-VOTE-NETANYAHU-FRANCE-JEWS","creditText":"Jack Guez—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3746427/netanyahu-no-palestinian-state/","name":"Netanyahu Vows No Palestinian State While He's Prime Minister"}}]}] ```