“The only thing they would be likely to negotiate is tidbits here and there, access permissions, a few economic deals – basically the terms of imprisonment and certainly not freedom and liberation.” ‘On the defensive’ Palestine and the Palestinians are simply not an issue for them,” she said. “All the potential candidates – except for the Joint List of course – refuse to acknowledge or talk about two states. Yet according Yara Hawari, a senior policy fellow at the Al-Shabaka think-tank, “it is difficult to see what the PA expects from a new Israeli government”. Gantz is expected to push Netanyahu close in the race to head Israel’s next government “The PA seems to have a single agenda with respect to the Israeli elections, which is seeking to prevent a Netanyahu victory,” Mouin Rabbani, a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, told Al Jazeera. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which seeks a state in the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza as part of any resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has not hidden its desire to see the back of the Israeli prime minister. Hamas, for its part, said Netanyahu’s annexation remarks “neither change reality nor stop the resistance of our people against the Israeli occupation and schemes”.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Hanan Ashrawi accused the Israeli prime minister of “not only destroying the two-state solution” but also “destroying all chances of peace”.
Senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah reacted with unsurprising anger. The move, along with the potential publication of the US “peace plan” after the September 17 vote, has raised the stakes for Palestinian political leaders. He also said he would ultimately look to “apply Israeli sovereignty over all Jewish communities”, a reference to illegal Israeli settlements. In a bid to shore up support among right-wing voters in the run-up to the poll, Netanyahu recently pledged to annex about 30 percent of the occupied West Bank if he wins. The long-serving leader faces potential indictments in three corruption cases, while his right-wing Likud party has failed to open up a significant gap in the opinion polls ahead of its biggest rival, the Blue and White party, headed by former military chief Benny Gantz.
Days in advance of Israel‘s second election in six months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life.
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