The centrist Blue and White party posing the biggest election challenge to Israe...
JERUSALEM - The centrist Blue and White party posing the biggest election challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged a policy of “separation” from Palestinians in occupied land on Wednesday, but stopped short of backing their goal of statehood.
Netanyahu and fellow rightists have cast themselves as blockers of any initiative to cede territory to the Palestinians. The policy blueprint envisages Israel retaining control of the Jordan Valley and blocs of Jewish settlements in the West Bank but remains hazy on what might be done with more isolated outposts in territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
Asked if Lapid’s remarks reflected Blue and White policy, a party spokeswoman said she could not elaborate on the platform. “A Palestinian state would endanger our existence,” the prime minister said in speech last month. “This is what they are planning to do. They obscure it. They hide it.”
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