'The question is who can preserve separation as an option by making the difficult political decision to stop building and expanding settlements outside of the blocs,' write Dennis Ross and David Makovsky for CNNOpinion
Dennis Ross, former US envoy to the Middle East, is the Davidson distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute. David Makovsky, former senior adviser to the special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion on CNN.
Israelis are about to go to the polls. It is tempting to call the upcoming national election on September 17 a referendum on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now Israel's longest-serving leader, who faces corruption charges .
Dennis RossDavid Makovsky This is not an act of leadership. Instead, it is a political act designed to appeal to the settler movement, which constitutes the backbone of Netanyahu's party. By boosting Likud's fortunes in this way, Netanyahu seeks to ensure that Israel's president, Reuven Rivlin, will come to him first to try to form the government.
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