Herzog: I Will Evict Settlers (Jews) – Appoint an Arab Muslim Minister

Labor Party head says he may appoint an Arab minister, as one of many gestures toward the Arab [Muslim] populace.

herzog620aLabor Party Chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog promises that he will not hesitate to uproot Jews from their homes as part of a [so-called] “peace” deal and says he plans a slew of gestures toward the Arab-Israeli [Muslim] sector, if elected prime minister.

In an interview with Ari Shavit in Haaretz, Herzog was asked about the first five actions he would take, if elected prime minister.

The first thing he would do, he said, is to visit the grave of his father, former president Haim Herzog. Then he would implement plan for socio-economic change drawn up by Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, the Zionist Camp’s candidate for finance minister.

Next, he said, “I will travel to Washington and meet President Obama, and open a new page with him. I will travel to Cairo and see meet President A-Sisi and see if he can bring Mahmoud Abbas back to the diplomatic track. And I will carry out gestures toward the Arab public. I may appoint an Arab minister.

“I will project the feeling that the period of division and internal strife is over, and that a period of healing and reconciliation is starting,” he vowed.

Herzog said that his role model for this plan is former prime minister and president Shimon Peres. In his two years as prime minister in 1984-86, he said, Peres “annihilated” inflation and took the IDF out of central Lebanon. “He was huge. Simply huge. But he did it quietly, in a businesslike, professional way. In deeds, not words. I see Peres as a mentor and I will do in 2015 what he did in 1985.”

Herzog said he would not agree to hand over the Golan Heights and expressed opposition to unilateral steps. He added, however, that he would freeze all construction outside the “settlement blocs” in Judea and Samaria.

“We will make fateful decisions,” he stated.

Shavit asked him if he would have “the strength” to evict settlers. Herzog answered in the positive. “I will try to build a process that will bring the [so-called] Palestinians to an arrangement. The decision about the Disengagement was demographically correct but its lesson is clear – one does not retreat without having someone to take over the territory.”

“That is why, if it is possible to reach a permanent agreement, I will try to opt for an intermediate arrangement based on the demarcation of a boundary and the guaranteeing of security. And then, if the moment comes for evicting settlements, I will do so. But only like Begin did: in an agreement, and after talking to the settlers themselves.”

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