Star News · Wilmington, NC · 31 August 2010
CP-2010-038
Settlements on West Bank in spotlight
Los Angeles Times
Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM | The peace summit next week has again put a spotlight on Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Palestinian leaders say the the negotiations will collapse if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not extend his moratorium on most new housing starts.
Naftali Bennett, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff and the director of the settler advocacy group the Yesha Council, spoke about the challenges. Q: What’s wrong with a temporary construction freeze in exchange for a possible peace deal? A: Why should we have to pay a price to talk? It’s in their interest more than ours. We’re doing just fine. If they want to talk, talk.
Q: What can you do if Netanyahu continues the construction moratorium? A: Netanyahu was elected on a platform against Palestinian statehood and pro-settlements. We need to help Netanyahu back and help him keep to his beliefs and promises. Q: If not a Palestinian state, then what would you propose?
A: The alternative is peaceful coexistence on the ground and simply strengthening the current, very positive trends with the economy and security.
How this transcription was made
Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “Star-News”.
Context added by this archive
Worth putting beside slide 25: the same interview, two papers, two different cuts. What the Star-News editor removed is the whole of Bennett's answer on Judea and Samaria, Iran, Hamas and 'there is not going to be a peace agreement anyway'; the entire apartheid exchange; 'If they have a state, we'll cease to exist'; and 'If he extends the freeze, that's crossing a red line'.
What survives is the economic-coexistence answer. The cut makes Bennett sound considerably more moderate than the Star-Ledger version of the same conversation. The paper's descriptor softens too: 'director of the settler advocacy group' here, 'recently named director-general' in the Star-Ledger.
Cite this clipping
"Settlements on West Bank in spotlight," Star News, 31 August 2010. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2010-038. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2010-038
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