Video: Israeli Spokesman Regev "No Contradiction Between Our Security Needs and Palestinian Sovereignty"

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Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared on the US channel MSNBC. Here is a striking extract highlighting Israel's official line: "No contradiction between Palestinian achieving sovereignty and Israelis being secure without threat."

MSNBC: There was an attack by Hamas that killed four Israelis within the last several days. the Prime Minister has made reference to it in terms of the security requirements. could you expand a little bit on the security requirements that Israel feels it needs in order to proceed to a final resolution of this?

REGEV: These attacks, these terrible attacks just underscore the need that with peace, you got to have security. You can't have one without the other. I mean, Israel vacated the Gaza Strip some five years ago. A land we transferred to the Arab side were a land we were attacked with with thousands of rockets....There is no contradictions between Palestinians achieving sovereignty and Israelis being secure without threat.