Israel’s Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked potentially threw the medium-to-long-term future of the coalition government into doubt Sunday, when she ruled out-of-hand her party, Yamina, from ever acknowledging or working toward a Palestinian state.
Shaked was responding to Israel’s Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who in an interview last week on KAN‘s Channel 11 television station, said that a “two-state resolution could be advanced when the government rotates in two years’ time,” according to The Jerusalem Post.
At the same time, he acknowledged that nothing could even be discussed – as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s political faction does not support such a move.
“There will not be a Palestinian state in a government that we [Yamina] are party to,” said Shaked.
