AVA- “We will ensure that we are in charge on the ground. And we will impose sovereignty over the settlements in Judea and Samaria [West Bank],” he said in an interview with Zionist television late Saturday.
Netanyahu, the leader of the right-wing Likud party, said his next government will not separate between large settlement blocs and small outposts in the West Bank.
“Not even a single settlement will be evacuated and the Jordan valley area will remain in our hands,” he stressed.
The Zionist premier said that the creation of a Palestinian state would endanger Israel’s existence.
“We are governing from a security point of view over the entire area,” he said. “I will not hand over any settlement to the Palestinian sovereignty and I will not divide Jerusalem."
Roughly 650,000 Jewish settlers currently live on more than 100 settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
International law views the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there as illegal.
The Palestinians, for their part, want both these territories -- along with the Gaza Strip -- for the establishment of a future Palestinian state.