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Interviewed by journalist Amit Segal at Monday’s conference hosted by the newspaper Besheva, Rivlin said,
“In my opinion, the only solution is an iron wall. I believe wholeheartedly that the right wing is democratic before all else. It’s clear to everyone invested in the situation that if we annex the entire country, the Arabs living in the West Bank will need to receive full Israeli rights and citizenship.”
That was the Haaretz version.
Here is the Besheva one
At last year’s Besheva conference, Rivlin said, “I believe that Zion is ours and that Israel’s sovereignty should be [extended] to every site. Sovereignty over a certain territory grants citizenship to all who reside there. There’s no excuse. There cannot be one law for Israelis and another one for non-Israelis.”
When asked about his support for the left, Rivlin said, "When the Haaretz newspaper writes good things about me, I am very concerned and I start examining my actions." However, Rivlin also said that he will not change his mind, and blamed "others" for changing theirs.
"All my life, I have believed that all of Israel belongs to us. In my opinion, the only solution is to be as an iron wall, and I believe that the right must be more democratic than it is anything else." "Everyone should know that if we apply sovereignty to all of Israel, all the Arabs who live in those areas will have to receive full citizenship and rights, like every other citizen of Israel."
Viva la difference.
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Found at the Facebook account of Israel's President:
"Every faith"?
Not really.
Jews at the Temple Mount are restricted, their rights sacrificed for the benefit of Israel's relations with Jordan:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has a strategic interest in, and long-standing commitment to, the safety, security, stability and prosperity of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In current times, the relationship is buttressed by a broad-ranging series of cooperative ventures in the strategic, security, diplomatic, economic and energy fields.
An important common thread runs, if sometimes invisibly, through a number of apparently unrelated policy decisions and actions made by Israel in recent years. All have to do with Israel's strategic interest in, and long-standing commitment to, the safety, security, stability and prosperity of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Among the decisions and actions that fall under this rubric are the understandings reached as to the maintenance of the status quo in the Temple Mount/ Haram al-Sharif compound;
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From
Ynet:
...speaking at an Israeli museum opening in the West Bank hours after US President Barack Obama called in a speech in Cairo for a halt in settlement construction...also attended by Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beiteinu), Head of the Civil Administration in the West Bank Brig. General Yoav Mordechai and Director-General of the Antiquities Authority Shuka Dorfman, as well as respected persons from the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities...[Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin said]:
"The opening of this site as a museum is a refreshing building project in days in which there is a grave threat to the settlements and to the legitimacy of our presence here...Any opening of an important site such as this is a clear and significant statement that we have not abandoned these regions and will not cease in underscoring our national and historic roots in these areas...he added that his dedication speech was not meant to serve as a rebuttal to Obama's speech in Cairo a few hours prior, saying that "our commitment to this piece of land did not start today or with the beginning of President Obama's tenure. Cultural and archeological rehabilitation efforts began over 40 years ago."
...The museum, located along the Jersualem-Jericho road, sits in a spot affiliated with the Byzantine Empire – the location of the story of the good Samaritan. Even in the event of Israeli land concessions that include maintaining position of primary settlement blocks in the West Bank, the spot would not be likely to remain in Israeli hands.
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