(Times of Israel) Raphael Ahren - Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau suggested Monday that those who censure Israel for building in its capital might change their views if they learned more about the 3,000-year-old Jewish presence in Jerusalem. "Israel will continue and do in Jerusalem what the British do in London and what the French do in Paris and what our friends in America do in Washington." "We do not advise anybody what to do in their own capital." Construction in Jerusalem is not meant as a punishment for anyone, he added, but is merely intended to serve the "natural" needs of Israeli citizens.
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