Livni: Trump meeting a chance to reinforce Israel’s security interests

13 February 2017, 3:35 pm

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Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni says Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump on Wednesday is “an opportunity to reinforce Israel’s vital security interests.”

“Trump wants to close a deal. There’s only one deal to that can keep Israel a Jewish and democratic state and that is separation from the Palestinians into two nation states,” Livni tells a meeting of her faction at the Knesset in Jerusalem, according to the Walla news website.

“Netanyahu should insist on Israel’s vital interests, like in the [2004 George W.] Bush letter [on Mideast peace] — keeping the settlement blocs and preventing of the right of return — and add the demand for a demilitarized Palestinian state and security arrangements. This is the true Israeli interest.”