Settler leader on Gantz platform: ‘There should be one law for all settlements’

While Blue and White’s newly released platform states that the party will “strengthen the settlement blocs” that most Israelis believe would remain part of the Jewish state in any peace deal, one settler leader blasts the plan as insufficient.

“The Etzion bloc will not be used as a fig leaf for those who want to divide the land and uproot thousands of Jews from their homes in order to fulfill false dreams and snap photographs on the White House lawn,” says Shlomo Ne’eman, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council.

The council he heads contains several settlements that the Blue and White Party says it will strengthen if given the keys to the next government.

“There should be one law for all settlements in terms of construction, development and implementation of Israeli sovereignty,” says Ne’eman.

— Jacob Magid