The bureau of the right wing Israeli party Likud overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday its rejection to the establishment of a Palestinian state, Arab48 reported.
The Likud Bureau – which consists of Likud MKs, municipality heads and Likud branch heads – is entitled to recommend and decide on the political, economic and social issues on the party’s agenda. Its current head is Ze’ev Elkin.
The Likud bureau met in the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank and approved the proposal, which renews the party’s position taken in 2002. The bureau approved a vote by 33 yes to 3 no that to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The decision called for the Likud voters to reject political initiatives that aim to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, as well as evacuating settlements, dividing Jerusalem and allowing refugees to return.
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It also called for pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to prevent interacting with international organisations including UNESCO and the UN and for dissolving the PA after Mahmoud Abbas stands down.
The Likud Bureau is expected to convene in order to discuss a proposal introduced by more than 800 Likud members to apply Israeli law in the illegal Israeli settlements in occupied territory.