(Haaretz).An argument broke out during a cabinet meeting Sunday between Labor parliamentarians and a number of Likud ministers, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined his diplomatic forays planned for the coming months.
Several Labor MKs called on Netanyahu to advance the peace process with greater urgency, with Transportation Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer calling for the prime minister to head to Egypt to advance peace talks by way of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Minority Affairs Minister Avishai Braverman added that "We must advance the diplomatic process so there will not be one state for two peoples here".
The remarks by Labor MKs were met with disapproval by Likud ministers, indcluding Benny Begin, who said "it is our right to be a Jewish state and to continue living in Judea and Samaria".
Begin also echoed Netanyahu's statement from his Bar-Ilan speech, in which he said a future Palestinian state must be demilitarized, saying "there is no such thing as a state without missiles, the missile will come after there is a country."
Strategic Threats Minister Moshe Ya'alon (former IDF chief of staff) said "there is no partner on the Palestinian side, we just give, and we get nothing."
