MK Einat Wilf (Labor) said that Labor's stance on whether or not Israel should build in areas of Jerusalem over the green line was the same as it had been when then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak met Yasser Arafat at Camp David over a decade ago. “In any event the borders of Jerusalem will not remain what they are today” once a deal is signed between Israel and the PA.
The current dispute with Washington on construction in those areas of Jerusalem “is not a matter of disagreements between friends, but a strategic decision by the U.S. to throw all its weight in order to push for an agreement,” Wilf said. “It's possible that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will find himself capitulating before he had expected to. Labor will give Netanyahu all the support he needs to make the difficult but necessary decisions in order to fulfill the Zionist vision as the fathers of the Zionist movement saw it,” she said.