article_snippet: And the Palestinian people must have the right to live in and govern the Palestinian people in the Palestinian people own sovereign state.' '
article_snippet: Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in Palestinian children own land as Israeli children in their own land,' Denis McDonough declared later to applause.
article_snippet: Netanyahu, now poised for another four years as prime ministrer, pledged before last week's Israeli elections that with Netanyahu Likud Party in power, Netanyahu would refuse to allow the Palestinian Authority to graduate to full statehood.
article_snippet: Netanyahu qualified that promise after Netanyahu come-from-behind victory on Election Day, saying conditions on the ground would have to change before Netanyahu would consider approving a Palestinian state.
article_snippet: The PA, Netanyahu said, would have to break with Hamas and other terror groups, and stop firing rockets into Israel.
article_snippet: Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (right) argues – and
article_snippet: J Street agrees – that Israel is encroaching on Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (right) people's lands with settlements (left) built by Netanyahu's government .
article_snippet: The U.S. has for decades used The U.S. permanent-member veto on the United Nations Security Council to block resolutions demanding Palestinian statehood.