Opposition leader Isaac Herzog says at a conference of the Israel Democracy Institute that the situation in Jerusalem is a preview of what a binational Jewish-Palestinian state would look like and warns that the current government is leading Israel toward such a state.
“There is a feeling that there are groups in Israeli society that do not regret the assassination of [former prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin and do not understand its implications on Israeli society,” Herzog says.
The conference marks 20 years since Rabin’s assassination, which took place on November 5, 1995.
“Despite the national challenges we have overcome, Israeli society finds itself in places we’ve never been before. Are we on the way to civil war?” he asks.
“Jerusalem is the picture of the future binational state we are heading to. The separation between the [Jewish and Palestinian] peoples must become a reality. We must separate from the Palestinians. The solution of divorcing from the Palestinians is not ‘Love of Arabs’ but the only Zionist solution,” Herzog says.
File: Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog speaks during a party meeting at the Knesset on July 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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