Netanyahu urged patience for the process to play itself out. Then he shored up his speech with some shoe leather politics.
Israeli plane that flew to Abu Dhabi was named for the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.
The E1 project was first advanced by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and then frozen as a result of US and international pressure.
In light of that annulment the state informed the court on June 24, that it would now demand the dismantlement of the illegal construction within 90 days.
Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers affirm their opposition to annexation.
Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz, who hosted Dichter, told him that “We must safeguard the settlements, and they in turn will safeguard us.”
Residents of Judea and Samaria, which make up some six or seven mandates, are considered to be the bedrock of the Likud and Yamina parties.
When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced that Israeli settlements are not per se illegal, it touched off a political firestorm.
Encountering Peace: It is a reality that international law has determined that the West Bank is governed as a territory captured in war, which makes it defined as a “belligerent occupation."
Having Pompeo, an Evangelical, make the announcement helps him if, as expected, he runs for the Senate from Kansas next year; he’s also said to have his eyes on the presidency in 2024.
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