The Western Wall belongs to Israel, despite what the United Nations
says, Israeli Prime Minister said in interviews with Israel's three
major networks.
"The Western Wall has always been and always will belong to Israel,”
Netanyahu said Saturday in pre-election interviews with main Israeli
channels 1, 2 and 10. "We have resided in the Jewish nation's capital
for 3,000 years. The Western Wall is not occupied territory and I don't
care what the U.N. says about that."
Netanyahu said the announcement of plans to build Jewish housing in
the E1 area of Jerusalem and in other Jerusalem neighborhoods was not
due to the upcoming Jan. 22 elections, but rather a response to the
Palestinians' decision to appeal to the United Nations General Assembly
for enhanced statehood status.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said over
the weekend that the P.A. would stop Netanyahu from authorizing building
in the E1 area, which connects the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh
Adumim to Jerusalem, an area that the Palestinians say is necessary to
keep the borders of a Palestinian state contiguous.
The housing is still in the planning stages and construction is a
long way off, according to
reports
Abbas called building in E1 “a red line and we will not allow it to happen.”
“We are holding contacts on all levels to stop this Israeli project
that aims to sabotage the peace process,” Abbas told the Fatah Advisory
Council, according to the WAFA Palestine News and Information Agency.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/23/3115256/netanyahu-western-wall-belongs-to-israel-despite-un-pronouncements#When:14:32:00Z
Sunday 23 December 2012
Netanyahu: Western Wall belongs to Israel despite U.N. pronouncements
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