Yamina party meeting last week
Yamina party meeting last weekPR

The rightist Yamina party blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan Monday, vowing to oppose the plan following a report that dozens of Israeli towns will be excluded.

Yamina, which had previously expressed serious reservations about the plan, suggesting it would lead to Palestinian statehood, ramped up their criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria.

“Sovereignty yes, a terrorist Palestinian state, no,” said Yamina Monday. “We say again that Yamina will fully back a true sovereignty map.”

Responding to a report Monday that 25 fledgling Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria have not been included in the maps being drawn up for the sovereignty plan, Yamina claimed the yet-to-be revealed plan would lead to the mass expulsion of residents from smaller towns.

“A plan that will lead to the establishment of a de facto Palestinian state, that will choke off isolated Israeli enclaves, and lead to the expulsion of residents, the evacuation of outposts, and destroy the settlement enterprise is unacceptable to us,” Yamina continued.

Earlier on Monday, Kan Hadashot reported that settlement leaders and members of the Young Settlement Forum had penned a letter to Netanyahu asking that the government normalize the status of the towns in question.

“We request the immediate normalization of the status of all the young towns in the framework of the Deal of the Century plan, and to clarify to settlement leaders and residents what should be obvious: not a single town will be uprooted and not a single family will be evicted from their homes.”

Even before Monday’s report, right-wing critics of the sovereignty plan warned the proposal could leave some Israeli towns isolated and vulnerable.

Under the basic outline for Israeli sovereignty put forth by the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, 15 Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria will be placed under Israeli sovereignty but without being directly linked to the larger contiguous bloc of territory set to be placed under Israeli law.

These 15 towns will be placed under Israeli sovereignty as smaller enclaves, which, if a Palestinian state is established under the Trump plan, would be surrounded by Palestinian territory.