Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is well aware of the dangers of a second “Disengagement,” says Minister of Diaspora Affairs Yuli-Yoel Edelstein in an interview with Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service. His comments were made on the fifth anniversary of the Disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
Most of the Israeli public opposes unilateral withdrawal, Edelstein said. Many opposed the idea of unilateral withdrawal before the Disengagement, and many others became convinced of the dangers of unilateral withdrawal in the years that followed, when Hamas rose to power in Gaza and residents of southern Israeli came under daily rocket attack.
Those who continue to believe in the power of unilaterally uprooting Jewish towns and giving the land on which they were built to the Palestinian Authority are a small minority, Edelstein said.
He rejected rumors that Israel has agreed to make territorial concessions in order to bring the PA to the negotiating table. “Israel has not committed to destroy Jewish towns or to carry out territorial withdrawals,” he said.
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