Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Ido Norden, said Sunday night that the framework agreement with Lebanon 'is the result of extensive diplomatic-security work in southern Lebanon that created the conditions for the memorandum of understanding.' Norden also called for ending political ostracism and forming a broad government after the election, saying 'enough with boycotts.'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Ido Norden, provided the administration's latest framing of the recently signed framework agreement with Lebanon during a Sunday night broadcast on Channel 14. Norden described the accord as the culmination of sustained diplomatic and security efforts in southern Lebanon, asserting that those efforts enabled the conditions for the memorandum of understanding between the two countries.
Norden's remarks follow a series of statements by Netanyahu over the past week positioning the agreement as a strategic defeat for Iran. The prime minister and defense chiefs have also reaffirmed that the IDF will maintain a security zone in southern Lebanon.
In a separate political statement during the same broadcast, Norden called for ending political boycotts and forming a broad national unity government after the upcoming election, saying: 'We want to see everyone who recognizes the basic values that there is consensus on in Israeli society.' The comment echoes Netanyahu's own call on Sunday evening for a broad coalition based on agreed-upon principles, which he outlined as including the rejection of a Palestinian state.
As The Zioneer reported Sunday, Netanyahu explicitly ruled out a Palestinian state and urged all parties accepting core national consensus values to join. Norden's remarks Sunday evening reinforce that message from within the Prime Minister's Office.
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