Netanyahu: Israel Is the ‘Inheritance of Our Ancestors’

A picture shows the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim near Jerusalem on March 2,
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The Times of Israel reports: BARKAN, West Bank — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday that his government will never evacuate another settlement, issuing the promise days after he met with a US delegation to discuss restarting the peace process with the Palestinians.

At an event celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria — the biblical name for the northern West Bank — Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands, “We are here to stay forever. There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel.”

“This is the inheritance of our ancestors,” he said. “This is our land.’ He also stressed the dangers Israel would face if it withdrew from the West Bank, a key demand of the Palestinians in any future peace deal.

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