Opposition leader and Zionist Herzog chair Isaac Herzog tells the annual AIPAC conference that Israel needs to separate from the Palestinians in order to secure its own future.
In a broadcast conversation with Times of Israel editor David Horovitz, Herzog says a peace agreement is in Israel’s best interests.
“I don’t feel an immediate peace agreement between us and the Palestinians is around the corner, but we need to preserve the two-state solution,” he says.
“We need to complete the security fence around the settlement blocs. We should always be in direct eye contact with the ideal of moving toward a two-state solution.”
Referencing the ongoing wave of terror attacks, Herzog says that Israel must pursue a negotiated solution at the same time that it “fights terror with no mercy. No ifs and no buts.”
“We should do whatever it takes to calm the situation, first of all by fighting terror with no mercy,” he concludes.
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