AP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Saturday to annex Jewish settlements in Yehuda and Shomron if re-elected, a dramatic policy shift apparently aimed at rallying his nationalist base in the final stretch of the tight race.
Netanyahu has promoted Jewish settlement expansion in his four terms as prime minister, but until now refrained from presenting a detailed vision for the “West Bank”, seen by the Palestinians as the heartland of a future state.
An Israeli annexation of large parts of the West Bank is bound to snuff out any last flicker of hope for an Israeli-Palestinian deal on the terms of a Palestinian state on lands they think is theirs.
A so-called two-state solution has long been the preferred option of most of the international community. However, intermittent U.S. mediation between Israelis and Palestinians ran aground after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital early in his term. The Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as their capital, suspended contact with the U.S.
More recently, Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The move was viewed in Israel as a political gift by Trump to Netanyahu who is being challenged by former military chief Benny Gantz.
The U.S. State Department declined to comment on Netanyahu’s statement.
Because he hasn’t sold himself in advance, he’s not already in Bibi’s pocket, so he’s the only one who can squeeze him to the wall and force him to keep his promises. #5, The Rebbe said clearly that it’s not about shleimus anything, it’s about pikuach nefesh, and that overrides all the shleimuses. That’s why the Rebbe dropped Mihu Yehudi when it became a matter of that or saving lives. But the fact is that Feiglin is better than anyone else on the other shleimuses too. Shoving halacha down people’s throats doesn’t bring shleimus hatorah, *or* shleimus ha’am. All it… Read more »
The only thing that Feiglin is on the right with is Shleimus Haaretz. There is still Shleimus Haam and Shleimus HaTorah.
The two major parties are both currently doing anything they can, in order to secure Zehut to join their team. Moshe has said that he will only talk to them, ( both sides ), after the elections. Both major parties realise that it will be most unlikely to form a government without Zehut. He will then be in a position to present his shopping list and see which team comes closer. It is well known that not giving away even an inch or even a spec of dust of our land, is on the top of his shopping list.
Moishe Feiglin has stated that he has no problem sitting in a Gantz/Lapid left wing government.
BS”D CROWN HEIGHTS WOMEN FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL Uniting Jewish Women around the World Under the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Directives for True Peace Mrs. Tamar Adelstein, co-ordinator 718-774-0914 [email protected] April 7, 2019 Elections for Israel’s next Knesset will be held this Tuesday, April 9th. It is imperative that the next Knesset be made up of parties whose listed mandates (candidates) will be uncompromising in protecting Jewish lives and Israel’s territorial integrity and who will implement unconditional settlement throughout the entire Land of Israel as per the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s directives for Shleimus HaAretz and true peace. If you are… Read more »
…you’re a fool. He’s promising this to persuade right-wing people to vote for Likud instead of one of the right-wing parties. But if they do that he will never fulfill his promise. The only way he will actually do this is if Likud gets too few seats for him to head a unity government with Gantz, and if the right-wing parties refuse to recommend him unless he does it.