Netanyahu urges doubtful settler chiefs to get behind ‘historic’ West Bank plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told recalcitrant settler leaders Tuesday they should get behind the “historic opportunity” to annex parts of the West Bank under the Trump administration’s peace plan.
Netanyahu also said he is committed to negotiating with the Palestinians on the basis of the US proposal, his office said.
The sides met at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Opposition from a majority of Israeli mayors in the West Bank to the Trump plan’s envisioning of a Palestinian state has crescendoed in recent days in a manner that has reportedly upset the White House.
Netanyahu told the settler leaders during the meeting that they were standing before a “historic opportunity to apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,” according to a statement from the PMO.
