Trump is very determined and wants to reach the ultimate deal.” The Americans are preparing a plan, and I presented our positions to the president. “Trump conveyed his seriousness about this.
“There’s no doubt that the Palestinian topic is a heavy and important matter for Trump,” Netanyahu is quoted saying, according to ministers present at the meeting. The paper does not report, as other have, that in a cabinet meeting Sunday Netanyahu pushed off a decision on okaying settlements in light of Trump’s peace efforts, but quotes Netanyahu saying that he does not think the US president is messing around. That dynamic is still somewhat at play, not only with some left-wing politicians still showing support for mainline settlements as well as East Jerusalem and Golan Heights, but also with Netanyahu backing Trump’s efforts to build peace plan, which is Haaretz’s lead story. It’s true that Ben-Gurion and Peres did show some support for settlements decades ago, but Israel was a different place back then, with the two-state solution being a dirty phrase domestically. Petty politicians will never be able to return to ruling Israel.” “When the main spokesperson of the opposition, MK Eitan Cabel, lashes the prime minister and terms him the prime minister of the far right leading Israel to the abyss and makes political hay again and again of the terrible murder of Yitzhak Rabin, one must wonder to what horrid depths the Zionist Union has tumbled into. In its place considerations tied to small-ball politics have taken center stage,” he writes.
“The Israeli statesmanship that was a cornerstone during Ben-Gurion’s day no longer exists among the left. Nonetheless, columnist Haim Shine uses the occasion to take a crack at the factions. More likely, though Netanyahu, a consummate expert at walking a political tightrope, is sending one message to his domestic audience via the tabloid and another to keep his good buddy Trump happy. This could be a case of Israel Hayom splitting with the prime minister, which it has done before on right-wing issues, notably this summer on the issue of Temple Mount security. Israel Hayom, which ostensibly represents Netanyahu views, is up in arms over reports that some dovish Israeli opposition parties will boycott a celebration of the 50 years since the “liberation” of the West Bank.” However at the same time, Haaretz has Netanyahu backing US President Donald Trump’s push for a peace plan - which one might think would likely include not celebrating 50 years of Palestinians under Israeli rule. The challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces in presenting one view on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a domestic audience and another on the world stage is in full view in Tuesday morning’s papers.
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