Livni: Israel won't keep isolated settlements in final agreement
solated settlements won’t remain part of Israel in any final-status agreement with the Palestinians, said Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday as she described her priority list for a peace deal.
Livni, who is Israel’s chief negotiator with the Palestinians, spoke at the Seventh Galilee Conference in Tiberias about areas outside of the settlement blocs, such as the Jordan Valley.
In this context of priorities, she prefers the Galilee, Kiryat Shemona, Tiberias and the Negev to “isolated settlements outside of the blocs that won’t be part of any future diplomatic agreement,” she said. “Instead of annexing settlements outside the blocs to Israel and becoming an isolated and ostracized country, I prefer, socially, culturally and economically, to annex the Galilee and the Negev to Israel.”
It was a Zionist imperative to maintain Israel as a democratic and Jewish state, something that could only happen through a two-state solution, she said.
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