Smotrich on Gaza proposal: Our right to the land is not for sale
Smotrich: "If there are countries that want peace for peace - welcome, if they want a Palestinian state, they should forget about it. It won't happen."
Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich released a statement today (Thursday) strongly opposing the idea of a commitment to a two-state solution as part of Trump's deal to end the war in Gaza and expand the Abraham Accords:
"Peace treaties from a position of strength with security potential and economic development for the entire region. But if we're talking about a glittering wrapper for an existential threat in the form of dividing the land, handing over territories to the enemy and establishing a Palestinian terror state twenty times the size of Gaza in an area that geographically and topographically controls most of the territory of the State of Israel - then no! Thank you.
"We've already been in this horror movie where they sold us bombastic illusions wrapped in lofty words about a new Middle East and international standing in the family of nations, and it exploded on us in buses in city centers with thousands of dead and wounded and with the most terrible massacre that happened to us since the Holocaust.
"After October 7th, there aren't many sane people in the State of Israel who would give their hand to this. Our rights to the land are not for sale. Period.
"Mr. Prime Minister, let it be clear that you have no mandate. Not even a hint or lip service.
"If there are countries that want peace for peace - welcome, if they want a Palestinian state, they should forget about it. It won't happen."