An article in Al-Monitor Bibi becomes a victim of Israel's radical right argues that Israel's Prime Minister is facing pressure from his own cabinet members to reject any reasonable accord with the Palestinians. On February 13 several cabinet members marched in the controversial E1 area in the East Jerusalem. E1 or East Jerusalem 1 is the part of the land where, the Israeli government announced in December 2012, three thousand settlement housing units would be constructed to connect the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem and thereby ending any hope of a contiguous independent Palestinian state.
Transport Minister Katz is quoted as saying,
There must be construction in E1, and anyone who opposes this is opposed to the Ma'ale Adumim block being a part of the State of Israel, and let them not tell stories. One land, one state, strong and united, with Judea, Samaria and Hebron.
Judea and Samaria are the West Bank of the Jordan River and are almost nine-tenths of the future Palestinian state, so it is clear these cabinet members want nothing to do with the two-state solution.
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But as Akiva Aldar, the author of the article, argues in the end, Bibi has been an instigator and a champion of such demands and even now can do a lot to stop them:
Twenty years after Netanyahu led the incitement campaign against the “Oslo criminals,” he has become a victim of that same messianic political movement that he nurtured. And perhaps, when he sits down next week in the Oval Office across from President Barack Obama, all the prime minister will want to say is, “You see who I have to deal with?” Let us hope that the leader of the greatest democracy will answer the guest from the little democracy thus: “I’m sick of these stories. A leader who has truly set reaching a peace agreement at the top of his priority list would have fired there and then the recalcitrant ministers and deputy ministers.”
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