Saturday, January 07, 2012

Outgoing Yesha Council Director's Opinion

Naftali Bennett published this at Ynet: Israel is our land

Israeli PR effort will fail as long as we don’t declare that land belongs to the Jews

He notes that there's a dominating

claim that the Judea and Samaria public relations effort, which is premised on our historical right in this land, is doomed for failure

that

we must not speak of the Bible and history, because it’s primitive; rather, we must only explain our security needs and point to the murderous behavior of the Palestinians

He insists

...there is no greater mistake...the Palestinians have been arguing for dozens of years now that this land is theirs, while we have been responding with “true, but we need security.”

...There is no wonder that the nations of the world would see us as robbers who pushed the Palestinian people out of their home. Regardless...we shall remain robbers.

And he further makes clear:

As long as we keep on utilizing practical arguments while leaving the arena of justice to the Palestinians, we shall lose. The time has come for the Israeli government to go back to the simple truth: The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel.

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