Walla.co.il (online service) by Shaul Arieli -- The author is a member of the Economic Cooperation
Foundation [as well as a retired IDF colonel and a board member of the Council for Peace and Security].
Translation via Israel News Today, May 27, 2014.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s remarks about the need for unilateral measures in the aftermath of
the collapse of the talks with the Palestinians could have been referring to two possible courses of action. The
first, which is rooted in his concern that Israel might “turn into a bi-national state,” would be to continue down
the road that Ariel Sharon took. Namely, it would entail complementing the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip
and northern Samaria with additional actions that during Ehud Olmert’s term in office were given the slightly
whitewashed name of the “convergence plan.” The second possible course of action would be for Netanyahu to openly
endorse the three-phased messianic plan to annex the West Bank that was presented by Naftali Bennett, the first
stage of which is to annex the settlement blocs to Israel.