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Monday, February 25, 2019
Bennett says Trump peace plan will ‘endanger existence of Israel’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEducation Minister and New Right Party chairman Naftali Bennett says the Trump administration’s yet-to-be unveiled peace plan will present “a danger to the existence of Israel.”
“Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ will be unveiled immediately after the elections, employing the same failed paradigm that brought us over 1,000 deaths and thousands of rocket attacks,” he says in a statement. “It presents a clear and immediate danger to the existence of Israel.”
Bennett says that only a religious Zionist party with “a vision for a Greater Israel” can protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party from “embarking on this kind of dangerous adventure.”
His remarks come in response to an interview given by US President Donald Trump’s senior Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, who said the administration’s Middle East peace plan will focus on the “redrawing of boundaries and resolving final status issues.”
Kushner told Sky News Arabic the Trump team worked to “formulate realistic solutions” for Israelis and Palestinians. He underscored the need for a unified Palestinian government, and said the plan that will be unveiled after Israeli elections in April will “have a broad economic impact” on the region.
The Times of Israel Community.