Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat in his chambers with the settler leaders for more than two hours on June 2. The reason? He needs to smooth the political right’s ruffled feathers regarding his intentions to promote annexation as soon as the beginning of July.
Senior figures among the settlers and the political right have expressed reservations and even objections to Netanyahu’s annexation plan. They argue that the annexation he is promoting as a historic step is really a code name for the establishment of a Palestinian state that Netanyahu is also endorsing as part of the US peace plan.
