"Blue and White Peace" movement to bolster 2 state solution

Ynet reports that several prominent politicians and other figures from the Left and Center in Israel will launch a new campaign titled "Blue and White Peace." The goal of this initiative is to support Prime Minister Netanyahu in realizing the goals laid out in his speech in June at Bar Ilan University, specifically his first endorsement of a two-state solution.

"We want to focus on the main agenda and it's important to us to bring in people who are not affiliated with the Left in order to send the message to as many publics as possible," said a source close to the group.

"Movements that believe in this solution should support the government, not oppose it. We have to push the consensual issues, or those that are near-consensual. The prime minister is facing more than ideological hurdles, we have to lend him our public support," a former top security figure who joined the group told Ynet.

"We feel that if he thinks he has significant public support for the two-state solution it would be easier for him to act on it. The majority of the Israeli public supports this solution and we want to express that support," an official source told Ynet. 

"Blue & White Peace" will have nothing to do with the prime minister's political affiliation, said other sources in the group, as it will focus solely on promoting the idea of a Palestinian state.

"The idea is to go with the flow, so to speak. The Left may have won an ideological victory in the last election, but it lost politically," said another source.