UTJ’s Gafni urges peace talks

Moshe Gafni of the United Torah Judaism party says he agrees with Bennett regarding the Golan Heights.

“The Golan is ours. Otherwise it will go to the Islamic State.”

He says the West Bank “God gave to us, it’s ours,” but nonetheless urges peace talks rather than international isolation.

Gafni says the US relationship is “strategically important.”

He says he’s in favor of peace talks “even if people will say there’s no one to talk to.”

“I don’t think we’ll reach a point that we will live in harmony and love with our neighbors,” he says. But Israel needs to engage in negotiations anyway, Gafni adds.

He says he told Netanyahu to speak with Obama. “We need the world,” he says.

“I am not a leftist” and not in favor of immediate territorial concessions, he says “but I think we need to have talks.”