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| Netanyahu vows he will never evacuate another settlement |
| 2017-08-29 |
| [IsraelTimes] At event celebrating 50 years of settlements in the northern West Bank, thousands cheer PM, as he speaks of the area’s strategic importance Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday that his government will never evacuate another settlement, a promise that comes just days after meeting with a US delegation to discuss restarting the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians. At an event celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria -- the biblical name for the northern West Bank -- Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands, "We are here to stay forever. There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel." "This is the inheritance of our ancestors," he said. "This is our land.’ He also stressed the dangers Israel would face if it withdrew from the West Bank, a key demand of the Paleostinians in any future peace deal. "Samaria is a strategic asset for the State of Israel," the prime minister said. "It is the key to our future. Because from these high hills, the heights of Mount Hatzor, we can see the entire country, from one side to the other." He said that Israel has withdrawn from settlements in the past but received nothing in return. "We’ve uprooted settlements. What did we get? We received missiles. It will not happen again," the prime minister said, referring to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gazoo Strip. "To those who want to uproot what we’ve planted, we will deepen our roots." "Imagine that on these hills were the forces of radical Islam," Netanyahu said that he tells world leaders. "It would endanger us, it would endanger you, and it would endanger the entire Middle East." The prime minister also gave his recollections of the first time he came to Samaria, as a soldier, and said that he felt he was walking in the footsteps of the patriarchs, walking the hills with a Bible in his hand. "I remember the excitement that gripped me when I came to Shiloh, the place where the [biblical] kingdom of Israel stood," he said. Netanyahu’s comments come just days after the visit of a delegation from US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who is looking to get the Israelis and the Paleostinians back to the negotiating table. A senior Paleostinian official said Monday that the Americans last week asked for a three-to-four-month "grace period" in order to present a peace plan. Nabil Shaath, speaking to the official Voice of Paleostine radio, said the Paleostinians had reiterated their demands that Israel end settlement construction and withdraw from the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War. Shaath, a former Paleostinian negotiator, said that the Paleostinians told the American delegation its demands are "the end of the occupation, the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the resolution of all permanent status issues, including the right return of for [Paleostinian] refugees." Netanyahu was enthusiastically welcomed by settler leader Yossi Dagan, and the large, exclusively religious, crowd greeted the prime ministers words with loud cheers. Mahmoud Abbas reportedly suspends further anti-Israeli measures in UN [Ynet] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has decided to suspend further anti-Israeli actions in the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council and other institutions, to avoid being blamed for foiling the American peace initiative before it was ever presented, reports the A-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper. Abbas reportedly reached this decision after consulting with other Arab leaders. |
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