Yosef Haddad Supported Palestinian State Post 'Guardian of the Walls' Operation
Translated & summarized from Israel Hayom by baba
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- Yosef Haddad supported a Palestinian state after the 'Guardian of the Walls' operation.
- This contradicts Haddad's recent claims that his views changed during the operation.
- Haddad's earlier interview stated a two-state solution is necessary.
- Right-wing politicians sharply criticized Haddad following the revelations.
- Haddad's party called the reports an 'orchestrated attack' using old material.
Yosef Haddad, who is ranked second on the "Am Yisrael" list headed by Ofer Vinter, expressed support for the establishment of a Palestinian state even after the "Guardian of the Walls" operation, according to a newly revealed interview. "I support a Palestinian state, provided that Israel ensures its full security," Haddad stated in the interview, adding, "for the borders and for our people and our society." This statement contradicts his earlier claim made on the same day, in response to a 2021 interview with Dubai-based Al-Arabiya that surfaced that morning. Haddad had previously stated that his view on Palestinians changed during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation when he witnessed "Palestinians, along with nationalistic and extremist Israeli Arabs, igniting the streets in Israel." He then claimed to have understood that "peace would not be with them and that they must not be given a state." He further asserted, "I have not a drop of trust in Palestinians today and I strongly oppose a Palestinian state, which is an existential disaster for us all."
In the Al-Arabiya interview, Haddad had said, "The final solution is the State of Israel alongside the State of Palestine," and that "this must happen." After the interview clip was revealed, he claimed it was an edited clip from over five years ago and that "a Palestinian state will not be established." Reactions from the right were sharp. Minister of Finance and chairman of the Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich, wrote on X that "when you look for 'new stars' and buy a pig in a poke, the electoral threshold is not the only danger." Moshe Feiglin, Smotrich's partner on the list, commented, "He who accepts the invention of Israeli national identity as a substitute for Jewish national identity must also accept the invention of Palestinian national identity." The "Am Yisrael" party responded by calling it a "orchestrated attack" based on "archive material from years ago," adding that "the archive, like a pomegranate, has two sides."
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