Biden’s remarks should raise alarms in Jerusalem. A public fallout at this level between the president of the US and the Israeli PM could have a deeply detrimental ripple effect.
Using legal and humanitarian arguments to justify Palestinian demands ignores Israel’s legitimate claims to Judea and Samaria and its security needs.
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Media all over the world have consistently misrepresented Israel over time. As a result, an erroneous anti-Israel narrative has become mainstream.
Israel’s civilian presence in Judea and Samaria, beyond being its historic and natural right, is crucial in preventing the area’s transformation into an Iranian forward operating base.
According to the left-wing group Peace Now one of the plans would retroactively legalize the Palgei Maim outpost, as a new neighborhood of the Eli settlement in the Binyamin region.
IDF says Palestinian civilians injured following shooting at settlement • Soldier injured in separate incident in northern Samaria
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