The claim: the solution of two states for two peoples will lead to a peace agreement that means more security for Israel. 

The response: The meaning of the establishment of a Palestinian state, even under a peace agreement of one kind or another, is to place Israel at a strategic and security disadvantage that endangers its very existence. 

  • Strategically, the mountains of Judea and Samaria overlook the entire Israeli coastal plain and all major Israeli population centers. They also overlook and control critical infrastructure such as the power plants in Reading, Rotenberg and Hadera and Ben-Gurion airport. This reality requires full Israeli security control in the Jordan Valley and in Judea and Samaria, and it is impossible to guarantee this control without a massive presence of Israeli citizens on the ground. 
  • From a security point of view, handing over territories in Judea and Samaria in favor of establishing a Palestinian state will bring the range of Israel’s enemies’ missiles closer to those strategic assets mentioned above. Already today, those assets are threatened by rocket fire (for example, Israel’s airport was closed during Operation Guardian of the Walls), especially with the handing over of territories from Judea and Samaria that are closer to those assets than the Gaza Strip or Lebanon. For example, the array of Hamas Grad rockets, which have a range of 40 km, will be able to reach the centers of almost all the cities in Gush Dan (Greater Tel Aviv area) with a high level of accuracy. 
  • The IDF’s control of Judea and Samaria provides high-quality intelligence that allows for effective prevention against terrorist attacks. This is the reason why there is no rocket fire from the territories of Judea and Samaria, but there is from Gaza, and the meaning of giving up IDF control in Judea and Samaria is the opening of a new array of rockets along dozens of kilometers. 
  • The thought that we would have international safeguards to prevent war in the form of an alliance with the US or other countries was proven to be meaningless in Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, despite agreements signed by Ukraine with both Russia and the US.