The Israeli government approved on Wednesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal not to recognize the United Nations (UN) General Assembly's (UNGA) decision to acknowledge Palestine as its full member.
"We will not reward the terrible massacre of October 7, which 80% of Palestinians, both in Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, support. We will not allow them to establish a terrorist state from which they will be able to vigorously attack us," Netanyahu said in a statement his office shared. "Nobody will prevent us, will prevent Israel, from realizing our basic right to self-defense."
Furthermore, the Israeli government insisted that the results of the UNGA's vote will not "change the status of the territories in question; nothing in it will grant any right, or detract from any rights of the State of Israel and Jewish People in the Land of Israel," nor be a factor in any future negotiations with the Palestinian authorities.
