Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Observation: Netanyahu Restores Cave of the Patriarchs to Israeli Requirements

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
24 May '11




Almost two years ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described Israel’s geographic needs outside of Jerusalem exclusively on a military basis:

“Regarding the remaining important issues that will be discussed as part of a final peace settlement, my positions are known: Israel needs defensible borders, and Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, must remain undivided with continued religious freedom for all faiths.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University 14 June 2009

Today Mr. Netanyahu restored national considerations not related to security to Israel’s geographic needs:

“Under any realistic peace agreement, these areas [neighborhoods and suburbs of Jerusalem and Greater Tel Aviv]., as well as other places of critical strategic and national importance, will be incorporated into the final borders of Israel.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress 25 May 2011

A prime example of a place of “national importance” is the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

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