Published: 4 January 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
In addition, the Israeli Parliament, after a late-night debate, voted early Tuesday to enact stiff new obstacles to any potential land-for-peace deal involving Jerusalem, while abandoning at the last minute a measure that would have eased the way to rid the city of several overwhelmingly Palestinian neighbourhoods.
Coming on the heels of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in defiance of decades-old United States policy and international consensus, the moves showed that the Israeli right senses a new opening to pursue its goal of a single state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
“We are telling the world that it doesn’t matter what the nations of the world say,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told more than 1,000 members of Likud’s central committee on Sunday. “The time has come to express our biblical right to the land.”
FULL STORY Emboldened Israeli Right presses moves to doom two-state solution (New York Times)
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In a late-night debate, lawmakers pass an updated bill that makes it harder to divide Jerusalem without Knesset approval
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Netanyahu and the Israeli right’s alternative to the two-state solution appears to be taking shape. There are only so many ways of describing that shape, and the reality to which it leads
Photo: The Likud Party voted on Sunday to support the annexation of Israeli settlements in occupied territory. Credit Amir Cohen/Reuters
