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The Etzion Block was the birthplace of the Jewish Settlement movement. Here our spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here we created cultural values of national and universal significance and exemplified to the world the values of the eternal Book of Books. Three times in modern history, Jewish residents of the Etzion block have been forcefully exiled: After the Arab pogroms of 1929; after the Arab pogroms of 1936; and on the ... |
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Ariel Sharon instructed our youth to “charge the hilltops”. The State allowed water and electricity link-ups, provided infrastructure and roads, encouraged the settlement of the outposts with grants and financial incentives. There is no such thing as an illegal outpost. Some were erected with the State turning a blind eye, some were authorized behind closed doors with a wink or a handshake. But there is no such thing as an illegal outpost.It is true that Ariel Sharon, as ... |
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One would think from everything we hear that Israel has no friends in Europe and that Europe, as a whole, is inherently anti-Israeli and pro-Arab - a lost cause for Israeli hasbara. Last week I visited several European capitals and held meetings with various European leaders and high ranking EU and NATO officials, and discovered that we ... |
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Leftists, Arab MKs quick to condemn IDF but say nothing about Hamas killings |
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In the summer of 2005, I voted against Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan and was subsequently fired from Sharon’s government. However, today I am calling for its completion. We are still deeply entangled in Gaza, and Gaza is still deep in our midst. Israel provides Gaza’s electricity and water, collects taxes on goods and services provided in Gaza on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, and Israeli ports still serve Gaza. There is no ... |
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UN Security Council Resolution 478 of 20 August 1980 determines that the 1980 Knesset law (the "Jerusalem Law") declaring Jerusalem as |
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“We, the Palestinian Arabs who live in Israel, natives of this land and citizens of this country… found ourselves within the borders of the Jewish state, detached from the rest of our Palestinian nation and the Arab world, were coerced to carry an Israeli citizenship and turned into a minority within our historic homeland” |
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In my very first political science lecture in the Hebrew University in the early 1980s, I was taught that international politics were governed by State interests. In all my years in Israeli politics and as a third-time minister, I have yet to see this theory implemented in Israel. I believe it was Henry Kissinger who once said that Israel has no foreign policy, only ... |
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