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March 17, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.580023

Defense Minister Ya'alon: No Palestinian Peace Deal without Jewish State Recognition

(Ha'aretz) Jonathan Lis - Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told Channel 2 TV on Saturday that a peace agreement with the Palestinians is unreachable unless they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Ya'alon said he disagreed with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's recent statement that it is a mistake to focus on the demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "I supported Oslo; I thought that if we gave up land it would bring us tranquility, but when I discovered that the conflict is not only over land, and land is not only Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], it's actually 'all of Palestine,' as they call it, the whole land of Israel, I became more realistic," Ya'alon said. "I supported 'land for peace'...and what did I get - land for terror and more than 1,000 killed and thousands of rockets. What did the Palestinians give up? Nothing."

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