Leading election opponent to Netanyahu vows to reopen talks with Palestinians

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JERUSALEM — Isaac Herzog, the leader of Israel’s Labor party and the main opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in next month’s elections, said Tuesday that if elected he would work to revive peace talks with the Palestinians and curb settlement building in the West Bank.

Calling Netanyahu’s speech next week to the U.S. Congress “a mistake,” he asserted that there should be “no daylight” between Israel and the Obama administration on an emerging deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Herzog, 54, heads the Zionist Union alliance with Tzipi Livni, a former justice minister who leads a small centrist party. Polls have shown their joint slate is in a neck-and-neck race with Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Casting himself as the only candidate capable of unseating Netanyahu at the polls, Herzog sidestepped the question of whether he might join him in a national unity government should either leader be unable to form a majority coalition.

“I intend to win and become the next prime minister of Israel,” Herzog told foreign reporters. “I have no other option.” In any case, he added, “We will not go with (Netanyahu’s) political vision at all.”

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Zionist wanting to negotiate with the Palestinians and stop the illegal settlements? I am so confused!

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That's because you have no idea what Zionist actually means. If I was there right now they'd be getting my vote.

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That's because you have no idea what Zionist actually means.

This look about right?

Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine