SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS: Israel pulled back from West Bank annexation in 2020, but the story is not over.
If Bennett won’t stand on principle for West Bank annexation, who will?
He said that annexation is what made the country come to the decision to make peace with Israel at the time that it did.
There was a time when all Arab leaders would have been united in the concept that settlement building and peace-making could not go hand-in-hand.
“We must ensure that future generations won’t need to live side by side with a hostile entity in Judea and Samaria.”
According to Vilnai, the most important goal is to separate from the Palestinians so that Israel will remain a Jewish and democratic state.
The bond between the Right, the settlement movement, and the periphery is a solid one, yet not unbreakable.
Netanyahu has often spoken of himself as the leader of the Right, but Liberman disputes that self-description.
The absence of sovereignty has always placed a shadow of danger over the settlement enterprise.
“What is happening now in Judea and Samaria, is exactly the opposite of sovereignty. It is a lack of sovereignty,” said Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Na’aman.
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