(Ha'aretz) Yotam Berger - "The Jordan Valley will always remain a part of Israel. We will continue to settle it, invest in infrastructure and tourism," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at a ceremony marking 50 years of Israeli settlement there. "The Middle East is unstable and violent. The valley is a strategic defensive belt for the country, and without it the fundamentalist flood could reach the interior, up to greater Tel Aviv. Thus, our eastern defensive line starts at this place. If we won't be here, Tehran and Hamastan will be here. We won't let that happen." Netanyahu said Israel will never abandon the Jordan Valley settlements "because they are of utmost security importance to Israel."
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