(Prime Minister's Office) On Jan. 4, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a Birthright Israel group: "This is your homeland, literally. This is where we all sprang up from. This is where the Jewish people forged their identity. This is where we lived for thousands of years until we were kicked out for thousands of years. And then we did something no people has done in history. A lot of people were kicked out and a lot of people disappeared. We refused to disappear and we wanted to come back to our homeland and we did, against all odds." "Go back to your respective countries and tell the truth about Israel. There's so much slander about Israel and the only way to fight a lie is to tell the truth. Tell them about a country where people are free: free to initiate, free to speak. It's a country where you can criticize the prime minister....This is a country in which Arabs have full rights, something they've been denied in all the vast lands around us. This is a country where a woman is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a woman is a general."
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