By GIL HOFFMAN – The Jerusalem Post
The Australian mining tycoon who helped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win his first election for prime minister in 1996 came out strongly against Netanyahu’s endorsement of US President Donald Trump‘s Middle East peace plan on Sunday.
Netanyahu trailed incumbent Shimon Peres in that race but received a last-minute boost from the “Netanyahu is good for the Jews” campaign that was funded by Joseph Gutnick, a Chabad rabbi who made a fortune from taking the advice of the Rebbe to mine diamonds in Australia’s Northern Territory.
“With all the respect, recognition and appreciation to President Trump for all he has done for Israel and the Jewish people, somehow he has been misled to come to believe that a demilitarized Palestinian state is acceptable,” Gutnick said. “It would be catastrophic for the security of Israel, much worse than the Gaza Strip withdrawal and its terrible consequences.
“The Lubavitcher Rebbe warned for more than 40 years and 101 times the enormous dangers of any type of Palestinian state, and even talking about such a possibility,” he said. “The prime minister must realize that he is leading Israel into a dangerous trap if he continues talking about a Palestinian state in any form.”
Gutnick has maintained a close relationship with Netanyahu. He warned that if the prime minister did not clarify the Palestinian state issue immediately, it would cause him “serious, damaging results” in the March 2 election, because he will lose the support of opponents of a Palestinian state to other parties on the Right.
Asked if he has relayed that message to the prime minister, Gutnick said he spoke to him a few weeks ago and has warned him many times about the dangers of even a demilitarized Palestinian state. And he questioned Netanyahu’s motivations.
“How do you stop Islamic radicals from entering such a state?” he asked. “What stops another prime minister from making it into a militarized state, like we saw with Oslo? We have discussed all the dangers at length. I can’t fathom what he is doing and why. Will that be his legacy?”
When asked if Netanyahu will lose the election if he keeps promoting the Trump plan, Gutnick said that he is “not a prophet.”
What beggars belief is not one world Jewish leader organisations politician have comdemned this lunacy of a palistinian state.
Relax the plo is not going to agree anyway
Even if the PLO does reject the Trump plan, merely talking about the possibility of a Palestinian state — much less accepting the notion — weakens the Jewish claim to the land.
Let the world see how the plo reject the biggest gifts. We should just keep quiet
Al the arabs have rejected it. But more important if we want to keep Israel we need to outlaw alternative lifestyle parades and stop the chillul shabbos.
Imagine someone said:
You guys living on half of the fourth floor of my apartment building won’t get evicted, and can stay in the building, but you can’t boss the whole building around, including me, the landlord, but you can still boss around the area by the part of the fourth floor that you live in like I, or anyone else, doesn’t own the building.
Read it once or twice more for it to sink in.
Touche.