Likud MK-elect Benny Begin said on Sunday that he sees no problem with Likud compromising in order to accept Kadima as a unity government partner because no matter what happens, the Palestinian Authority won’t accept a two-state solution.
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni has insisted that her Likud counterpart Binyamin Netanyahu accept a two-state solution without his conditions of “economic peace,” meaning that the PA must be economically stable before it can govern effectively and overcome terror.
Begin, a former MK who returns to the Knesset when the 18th government convenes on Tuesday, is counting on the PA to reject implementation of a final proposal for a new Arab country in most of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. 
Begin is counting on the PA to reject implementation of a final proposal for a new Arab country. 
The previous government, with Ehud Olmert at the helm and Livni as Foreign Minister, had agreed to expel tens of thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria and has discussed the status of Jerusalem, which PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas demands to make the capital of a new Arab state.
The PA chairman wants to reach a final arrangement to divide the capital and resolve the entity's demand for millions of foreign Arabs to settle in Israel. He also is trying to win control of Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods, such as French Hill, Ramot and Gilo, that the PA considers to be “settlements.”
Virtually all political leaders in Israel consider all Jerusalem neighborhoods to be untouchable and also accept the large population centers of Ma'aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion to be inseparable from the Jewish State.
MK-elect Begin, son of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, stated that an agreement between the PA and Israel will have a very long “shelf life,” making the differences between Kadima and Likud “virtual.”
Concerning Kadima, he noted that his father sat in a unity government in 1967 with secular and leftist parties and that there is no reason that Livni cannot do the same.
“Every party must avoid putting too much weight on general principles,” Begin stated. “Why assume it is impossible to sit together? Let things find their own way….We are happy to work together. Why look for trouble when it is possible to avoid it?”
Likud whip MK Gidon Saar declared Monday morning that the PA-Israeli agreements stemming from the late 2007 Annapolis, Maryland summit are insignificant. “There was supposed to be an agreement by 2008,” he noted. “We also want negotiations. But what about Jerusalem and [Arab] refugees?”
Saar said that Livni, as Foreign Minister, "invested a great amount of energy to overcome problems with the PA, and she can do the same with the Likud.”