As the ongoing battle within Israel’s coalition government grows around the issue of the Palestinian peace talks, it seems to be spreading within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own Likud Party.
That was the message from Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin, a hawkish Likud member who oppose the peace process, who warns that Netanyahu is paying a huge political price within Likud for his position.
Elkin insisted that he respects Netanyahu’s willingness to stand for what he supports, but that added “I think he’s wrong” and that the talks wouldn’t result in any deal because the Palestinians are still seeking statehood in the occupied territories.
Elkin added in comments to the Times of Israel that there could never be a Palestinian state, and that there is “no solution” for what to do with the Palestinian population right now, but that one might eventually present itself.
Deputy Foreign Minister, Elkin, worries that the Palestinians are "seeking statehood in the occupied territories".
No kidding!
Does this guy believe that the Palestinians, (like the Union of South Africa blacks before them,) should enjoy being politically homeless, having no citizen's rights, and having their property arbitrarily stolen from them?
Actually, he's more likely to believe that the Palestinians don't have a right to exist – anywhere. Reread his comments regarding " [a solution] might eventually present itself." That doesn't sound like someone wanting to find a solution agreeable to the Palestinians. He and his like-minded believers want the problem to go away…forever. There's only one way to get THERE. Eliminate them. And that is what the Israelis have been doing since 1948. But FWIW, that's just this old curmudgeon's opinion…