Israel National News

Prime Minister’s Binyamin Netanyahu’s Office responded on Sunday night to a statement made by a senior Israeli official to Arutz Sheva, who said that early elections in Israel would lead to a significant postponement in the publication of the US administration’s peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

“The prime minister does not know when the American plan will be presented, and when it is presented, the only considerations he will have are the national interests, first and foremost the security of Israel,” Netanyahu’s office said.

The senior Israeli official had said that the Israeli government had urged the US to push off the release of the peace plan in the event that Netanyahu’s coalition collapses and new elections are called.

“The Americans understand very well the situation in Israel, and they know that it wouldn’t be right to release a peace plan in the middle of an election season, and could even be interpreted as interference in Israeli domestic affairs,” the official told Arutz Sheva.

“The messages we’ve gotten from the other side [the White House] suggest a clear understanding of the situation and willingness to push off the release of the peace plan, if there are early elections, until after a new government is formed.”

White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt said at a closed-door meeting in London earlier this month that the so-called “Deal of the Century”, as the Trump administration’s peace plan has come to be known, will be released in the near future.

Greenblatt and other White House officials have refused to comment on the peace plan, which reportedly has yet to be finalized.

A report on Channel 10 News on Sunday evening, meanwhile, said that President Donald Trump is set to decide this week when the administration will begin the rollout of the much anticipated peace plan.

According to the report, which cited senior American officials, Trump is scheduled to meet with senior administration officials this week to settle on a date for the plan’s release.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who flew back to Washington recently to take part in the meeting, are among the senior administration members who will sit down with the president to plan out the rollout.

National Security Advisor John Bolton, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, and special White House envoy Jason Greenblatt are also expected to take part in the meeting with the president, according to Channel 10.

President Trump is reportedly anxious to unveil the plan as soon as possible, and is still eyeing a December 2018 release. Senior officials within the Trump administration, however, advised the president to delay the peace plan’s rollout, especially if Israel holds early elections.

Whenever the peace plan is presented, it is likely to be met with rejection from PA officials, who have been boycotting the US ever since Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last December.

PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who has continuously blasted the Trump administration, last week again criticized the peace initiative.

“The ‘Deal of the Century’ will not pass and the fate of the land of Palestine will be decided by the Palestinian people,” said Abbas.

3 thoughts on “Netanyahu's response on Trump's peace plan delay due to early elections in Israel– 'The only consideration is Israel's national interest'”
  1. Mr President Trump…. give this response to the “prime minister of the homeland for the jew and the jew only”…..
    How much security do you think you will have when I pull all financial funding we give you, all the financial funding we give to the surrounding Arab leaders who we pay to keep their enraged citizens from descending upon you kamikaze style, and any and all support I tell the rest of the world leaders of earth to stop giving you also? How much support will a totally shunned and isolated crappy little country like yours have then?
    As for your nukes. We we both know you won’t use them. Because that would mean the death of to many Jews.
    The old… if I can’t have it no one can have it is not a Jew thing. When it comes down to it the thing the Jews fear more than any thing… death.
    Your “citizens” will scramble to leave that place as soon as I pull the cash cow tit and free ride you all have enjoyed since the end of the two world wars. And you Mr. “Prime Minister”….
    Will be Prime Minister of nothing but a land of Arabs who hate your ever loving guts!

  2. Just who is blowing who’s tooter here?!
    On the one hand ya got Wot-a-Yahoo’s orifice sayin’ as how it ‘wouldn’t be right to release a Piece-of-the-Action Plan in the middle of an election season’.
    Ya got US ‘Ambassador’ to Israel and Israhell-Firster, David Friedman, a-flyin’ back to Washingmachinetown to take part in the meeting to plan the rollout of said ‘Piece Plan’.
    Ya got National (sic) Sekurity ‘Advisor’, John Bolton, senior Whiteout House ‘Adviser’ Jared Kushner, and special Whiteout House ‘Envoy’, Jason Greenblatt – all Israhell-Firsters of the highest ordure – expected to take part in said meeting.
    Ya got the Trumpeter reportedly ‘anxious to unveil the plan as soon as possible and still eyeing a December 2018 release’.
    And ya got PA ‘Chairman’, Mahmoud Abbas, a-sayin’ as how ‘the ‘Deal of the Century’ will not pass and the fate of the land of Palestine will be decided by the Palestinian people’.
    So where precisely does that get us? … Nowhere. There can be no Piece Plan because there is no Palestinian land left to divvy up. Israhell has pretty well annexed the whole lot and clearly has NO INTENTION of allowing Palestinians any such thing as a ‘right of return’.
    Pure theater. All of it pure theater. Just filling in time before death finally comes to claim them all.
    “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” – Charles de Gaulle

  3. Trump would have enhanced stature were he to release his peace plan next month, making the coming attempts by the Democrats in January to bring on renewed attempts at proceedings, to end with his ouster from the presidency, look like retaliation for having tried to bring lasting peace to the Middle East.

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