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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
In meeting with EU ambassadors, Gantz avoids endorsing two-state solution
The European Union’s ambassadors in Israel meet with Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz “to hear his vision on EU-IL relations, Israel’s security and regional issues,” EU’s Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret tweets.
In his conversation with the EU ambassadors, Gantz does not explicitly endorse a two-state solution, but indicates that both Israelis and Palestinians “are here to stay” and that an arrangement needs to be found, a participant in the meeting tells The Times of Israel.
Commenting on the current controversy surrounding the Jewish Nation-State Law, Gantz says that, “obviously, Israel is a state for all its citizens.”
Earlier this week, Netanyahu had repeatedly argued that Israel was not a state of all its citizens but the nation-state of the Jewish people, “and of it alone.”
EU Ambassadors met today with Benny Gantz head of Kahol Lavan to hear his vision on EU-IL relations, Israel's security and regional issues @gantzbe pic.twitter.com/LFOl0diMX8
— Emanuele Giaufret (@EGiaufretEU) March 12, 2019
— Raphael Ahren
The Times of Israel Community.