Published: 5 February 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Gabbay: If peace talks fail, we should unilaterally withdraw (Israel National News)
Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay said Saturday that if negotiations with the Palestinian Authority fail, Israel should unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria. “We must do all we can in order to hold genuine negotiations.”
“If, after all our efforts, it seems the Palestinians don’t want an agreement, we’ll have to take unilateral measures to guarantee that Israel forever remains the homeland of the Jewish people. The liberty to make such a decision is ours, not theirs,” he continued.
“If there aren’t two states for two peoples, there will be one state with an Arab majority, and we don’t want to reach that situation. We are the ones who have to make the decisions and the Palestinians have to reach a situation where it is worth their while to reach an agreement,” said the Zionist Union chairman.
"I believe we have to do everything possible to get to the negotiations stage and to build genuine mutual trust between the two sides so that we can make progress,” he opined.
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Photo: Avi Gabbay (Miri Tzahi/TPS)
