Ahead of Israel's elections, Bennett rejects two-state solution as Eisenkot surges in polls

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Naftali Bennett is trailing his rivals in third place in the polls ahead of October’s elections Naftali Bennett speaks to the media on 15 January 2024 (Jack Guez/AFP) Off Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he “will not allow a Palestinian state to be established”, even at the cost of normalisation with Saudi Arabia. “I am not giving up territory, period,” Bennett said in an interview with Israeli Channel 12, stating repeatedly that he will advocate for