
Ministers and MKs will meet Tuesday to discuss alternatives to the widely accepted “two state solution” plan, which calls for the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The meeting will include a seminar titled, “Alternatives to the 'Two State' Perception.”
The seminar will be held from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. In the office of MK Tzipi Hotobeli of Likud.
The purpose of the meeting is to create a solution to the Israel-PA conflict that does not involve the establishment of a PA state, Hotobeli explained. The “two-state solution” has failed, she said, and the political Right must present a viable alternative “so the world will know that the two-state solution is not inevitable.”
Among those who say they will join the meeting are Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein and Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Several well-known military and diplomatic officials are expected to attend, including Major-General (res.) Giora Eiland.
Yishai and Yaalon plan to present diplomatic plans, as do MK Robert Ilatov of Yisrael Beiteinu and former Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council director-general Adi Mintz.
Also expected to attend is MK Yuli Tamir of Labor. Several days ago, Tamir and three other Labor MKs told Prime Minister Bnyamin Netanyahu that he has no choice but to create a PA state. The four termed alternative proposals “useless.”
"We wanted the Left to come,” Hotobeli said in response to the Labor MK's plan to attend. “We wanted it to be a debate and not a monologue.”
In fact, Hotobeli said, the right-wing politicians who organized the event were inspired in part by former MK Yossi Beilin of the left-wing Meretz party. Beilin has promoted his own peace initiative, termed the Geneva Initiative, for several years. The initiative has failed to garner support within Israel or the PA, but has gained publicity worldwide.