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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176030
Vice Premier Vows to End Building Freeze in the Fall
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Vice Premier Moshe Ya'alon vowed on Thursday that construction will resume in the West Bank when the moratorium on housing starts expires on Sept. 26. "We will renew building after the moratorium ends," he said. "We do not want to rule our neighbors. But we will not evacuate settlements. We will not move Jews. We will not sacrifice Jews from any place in Israel." He added that the government would reject any situation in which Jews are forbidden to live in certain areas of the country, while Arabs can live anywhere in Israel. "The settlements have never been a stumbling block to peace. The absence of that peace is for reasons that are not connected to us," Ya'alon said. "Our neighbors do not recognize the right of Jews to their land. They do not recognize the right of Israel to exist as a national homeland for the Jewish people." It was this refusal that had been a stumbling block to peace since the dawn of Zionism, he said.