(Politico-EU) Paul Ronzheimer - In an interview with Axel Springer, Politico's parent company, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israeli forces would move into Rafah in Gaza. "We'll go there. We're not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That Oct. 7 doesn't happen again." Netanyahu said he had the tacit support of several Arab leaders for driving ahead with the onslaught against Hamas. "They understand that, and even agree with it quietly. They understand Hamas is part of the Iranian terror axis....We're close to finishing the last part in warfare." Fighting would not "take more than two months. Maybe six weeks, maybe four." He dismissed the idea of a ceasefire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, saying that while he would "like to see another hostage release," he didn't see any "breakthrough in the negotiations....Without a release, there's not going to be a pause in the fighting." When asked about the European view that there cannot be peace without a two-state solution, Netanyahu replied: "They don't understand that the reason we don't have peace is not because the Palestinians don't have a state. It's because the Jews have a state. And in fact, the Palestinians have not brought themselves to recognize and accept the Jewish state."
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