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Will Netanyahu manage to push through extended sovereignty bid? ‎

With the original target date of July 1 about to expire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with White House envoy ‎Avi Berkowitz and US Ambassador to Israel as Israeli media reports that the US wants Israel to make ‎territorial "concessions" to the Palestinians. ‎

by  Ariel Kahana , AP and ILH Staff
Published on  07-01-2020 08:50
Last modified: 07-01-2020 12:13
PM: Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty will 'definitely' happenHaim Zach / GPO

Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Jordan Valley | File photo: Haim Zach / GPO

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that discussions with the US on his plan to annex ‎occupied West Bank territory would continue "in the coming days," indicating he would miss the July 1 ‎target date for beginning the controversial process.‎

Netanyahu made the comments shortly after wrapping up talks with White House envoy Avi ‎Berkowitz and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. The sides have been holding talks for several ‎months on finalizing a map spelling out which areas of Judea and Samaria will come under Israeli ‎sovereignty. ‎

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‎"I spoke about the question of sovereignty, which we are working on these days and we will continue ‎to work on in the coming days," Netanyahu said.‎

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, who met separately with Berkowitz, said Tuesday that "We are ‎standing before major regional opportunities. We must act with great responsibility to protect Israel's ‎diplomatic and defense interests, while keeping up a constant dialogue with our friend the US and our ‎neighboring states, without hurting defense and security, stability, or the existing peace agreements." ‎

Meanwhile, senior cabinet ministers are saying that despite the difficulties of moving ahead with the ‎plan, Netanyahu would manage to see it through. ‎

In closed-door talks on Tuesday, the ministers said that there was a majority of support for the ‎sovereignty plan in the government, despite objection to it from Blue and White.

‎Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich (Blue and White) spoke in favor of the sovereignty plan on ‎Tuesday. During a tour of Gush Etzion, she noted, "This place belonged to our forefathers. The ‎citizens of Israel who live here are here because of decisions made by the Israeli government. It needs ‎to be under Israeli sovereignty." ‎

Also on Tuesday Kan 11 News published a graphic showing what it said were proposed ‎Israeli modifications to the initial map of the areas to come under Israeli sovereignty, proposed by ‎Trump.‎

The map calls for turning over additional territory allocated to the Palestinians under the Oslo Accords, ‎specifically land surrounding settlements and highways that are marked in green. In return, it proposes ‎compensating the Palestinians with territory, marked in yellow, that the Trump proposal had allocated ‎to Israel.‎

Citing an unnamed source, Channel 12 News reported that the American negotiators were asking Israel to make "a significant step" ‎as a gesture to the Palestinians, such as handing over an amount of territory to Palestinian control that ‎was comparable in size to the areas in which it plans to declare sovereignty. 

Meanwhile, Netanyahu has encountered some resistance to his plans for sovereignty from his ‎governing partner, Defense Minister, and Prime Minister-designate, Benny Gantz.‎

The coalition agreement for their new government, which was formed in May, gives Netanyahu the ‎authority to present a proposal for sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and settlements in Judea and ‎Samaria after July 1. But US officials have said they do not want to move forward with a plan unless the ‎two leaders are in agreement.‎

Gantz said Monday that the July 1 target date was not "sacred." He also said that sovereignty "will wait" ‎while the government grappled with the coronavirus health crisis and the economic crisis that has ‎resulted from the nationwide shutdown.‎

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