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Netanyahu: U.S. Peace Plan Says Israel Is Here to Stay

(JNS) Alex Traiman - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the "new approach for Israel" in its relations throughout the Middle East when meeting with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Sunday. Calling the U.S. peace plan a "breakthrough," Netanyahu noted that the U.S. is set to "recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea and all the communities, the Jewish communities, large and small, in Judea and Samaria" upon the completion of a "mapping process" and regardless of Palestinian acceptance of the plan. "We're working together to finish this as fast as possible," said Netanyahu. "In order to enter the negotiations, [Palestinians] have to fulfill certain conditions. This is a historic change. In all the previous plans submitted by previous American administrations, it was Israel that had to make concrete concessions in order to enter the negotiations and the Palestinians were required to do nothing." Now, as a prerequisite, Palestinians will need to "stop paying terrorists and to withdraw all their claims against Israel and at the ICC in The Hague." "This is a plan that says to the Palestinians and to the world, this is it, Israel is here to stay. We recognize Israel's sovereignty over its ancestral homeland....The change that we're witnessing today is part of the reemergence of Israel as a power among the nations."
2020-02-18 00:00:00
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