Jaffa: The new Israeli-Palestinian peace process hasn’t even started yet and it’s already facing hurdles.
Naftali Bennett, a minister crucial to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, is threatening to use his party’s seats to topple the government if Palestinians are granted any land concessions in negotiations. US President Donald Trump said during a visit to Israel last month the two sides were ready to resume talks after a three-year hiatus.
“Any peace agreement that is predicated on dividing Jerusalem, on cutting up our tiny country and handing it to the Palestinians, will fail,” said Bennett, the head of the Jewish Home party, which wants to annex land in the West Bank and ardently opposes a two-state solution.
Read the full article by David Wainer and Michael S. Arnold at The Sydney Morning Herald.