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It’s going to take very heavy pressure on Netanyahu from the White House, and no one has more chits and credit and credibility with the Israeli public than Donald Trump
If Trump is the one to push the Israelis and Palestinians to a two-state solution, I would gladly applaud that. Do I think it’s likely? No, I do not.”
He said later in an interview He is president of the United States, and he’s expressed an interest in getting done the ultimate deal,
Removing the settler violence Order is giving a green light to the very worst elements of Israeli society and sending a clear message that the Trump administration supports their annexationist agenda and the violent means by which they pursue it,
I think Israel has received assurances that it can go back into Gaza and re-fight the war and rid the area of Hamas, however long it takes, ... Trump will be OK with that.”
he said on a recent Tikvah Fund webinar, adding There is an inherent opposition within the world J Street moves in to anything President Trump is going to touch,
If he just wanted to say, ‘OK, I got a deal, I succeeded where Joe Biden didn’t, there’s no war,’ but not put in the hard work that is really needed now on the ground ensuring there’s a stage two, [then] there won’t be a stage two,
Efron said on the podcast If at the end of four years what comes out of this is the beginning of the reconstruction of Gaza, and normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia that has a real Palestinian component, those are things liberal Zionists have wanted for years,
said Michael Koplow, the chief policy officer of the Israel Policy Forum We worked very strongly to try to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president,
There’s no idea or phrase more closely identified with J Street than the ‘two-state solution,
Ben-Ami wrote in an essay earlier this month He could end up doing things that liberal Zionists love and he may end up doing things liberal Zionists hate,
said Koplow, whose group favors a Palestinian state alongside Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acted, and is acting, against the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger the security of Israel.”
Barely a month ago, Netanyahu’s office sent out the following official statement It’s Trump’s proclivity for deal-making and the no-mess sentiments that I’m holding on to for some progress toward a future Palestinian state beside Israel,
I would much prefer to have absolute alignment with an administration on policy and values and approach, but this is the world we live in, and in the real world, nothing is perfect,
The Kingdom has communicated its firm position to the US administration that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital,
the Saudi foreign ministry said last month Israel and Trump have given settler terrorism the green light.”
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper carried a critical editorial headlined There was a time when I thought two states could work. Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough.”
