Tzipi Hotovely waving an Israeli flag with the Dome of the Rock in the background, in a 2014 promotion
On August 12, Twenty-one Israeli lawmakers sent a letter to members of Congress criticizing a bill that condemned the boycott of Israel
because it endorsed a two-state solution.
House Resolution 246 (H.Res.246)
overwhelmingly passed in the House last month, with just 17 members voting against it. The resolution condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, identifying it as a roadblock in the quest for a two-state solution. "We would like to make our position clear that
the establishment of a Palestinian state would be far more dangerous to Israel than BDS," the letter reads. Signatories include Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (United Right), Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud), and MK Gideon Sa'ar (Likud).
The letter is addressed to the cosponsors of the bill-Rep. Brad Schneider (D-CO) , Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO),
all of whom are staunchly pro-Israel. According to
The Jerusalem Post, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan helped develop the letter.
Dagan has even criticized The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for promoting a two-state solution. "Unfortunately, in the last few years, AIPAC is independently advancing the two-state solution," he told the paper, "AIPAC portrays the two-state concept as an Israeli interest to elected officials in America and as the official position of the Israeli government, even though this is untrue. The two-state concept is not the policy of the current government coalition, nor is it stated as policy in the agreements between the coalition partners. Furthermore, this is not the policy of the Trump administration, which has even removed it from the National Security Strategic Report."
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