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Potentially embarrassing coalition, Lapid to submit Knesset motion to adopt Trump’s 20-point plan
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid announces he will bring a motion before the Knesset next week to adopt US President Donald Trump’s 20-point “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.”
“The entire Israeli nation is grateful to President Trump for leading a courageous deal to free the Israeli hostages. We support President Trump and strengthen his hand in the efforts to implement the stages of the plan. I expect all parties to vote in favor of the president’s plan,” Lapid says in a statement.
Beyond outlining a path toward ending the conflict and disarming Hamas, Trump’s plan asserts that “while Gaza re-development advances and when the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people” — though it does not go further into the matter.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that “there will not be a Palestinian state.”
Given the plan’s reference to Palestinian statehood, it is likely that the coalition will vote down Lapid’s motion, embarrassing the government vis-a-vis Trump.
Asked if Lapid supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, a spokesman replies that there has been “no change” in his views on the subject. Lapid last year told The Times of Israel that after October 7, statehood was not currently realistic, but “the best that we can do is to maintain the option for the distant future.”
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