"The Land of Israel is the sole homeland of the Jewish people," the movement said. "The Land of Israel belongs to us, to the generations that preceded us and the generations that have yet to come. One does not conduct business or make deals on a homeland."
Labor-Gesher-Meretz leader Amir Peretz said there still must be negotiations with the Palestinians to bring about two states for two peoples, and Netanyahu had no legitimacy to negotiate due to his indictments.Joint List faction chairman Ahmad Tibi called the plan “a dangerous wedding without a bride.” He said Trump was “a president in the process of being toppled” who had given an election gift to Netanyahu.”Left-wing organizations also blasted the plan.“What the Palestinians are being offered is not rights or a state but permanent apartheid,” B’Tselem executive director Hagai El-Ad said. “No marketing or packaging can erase the shame or blur the facts.”Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said he welcomed that the Trump plan included a long-held aspect of his party’s own platform, the population transfer of Israeli Arab towns in northeast Israel to the putative Palestinian state.Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the National Union, a constituent party of Yamina, said he rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state but welcomed Trump’s recognition of Israel’s territorial claims to the settlements and territory in the West Bank in biblical terms.He also called for the immediate annexation of the portions of territory in the West Bank that are designated to Israel under the Trump plan.“On Sunday, G-d willing, it will happen. Those who dare, win,” Smotrich said.“The American recognition of the biblical and historic right of the Jewish people over the entire Land of Israel is the realization of a substantial stage in the words of the prophets,” he said, adding that he and his party would not accept a Palestinian state.“From our perspective, it is sovereignty now, an Arab state never,” Smotrich said.Gil Hoffman contributed to this report.
Bennett rejects Trump plan for Palestinian state, demands annexation now
Bennett said he and his party would not agree to transfer “a centimeter” of land to “the Arabs,” adding that Yamina existed to “protect the Land of Israel.”
