"This land is ours, all of it is ours" says Israeli deputy foreign minister

[Winchester]

JERUSALEM: A top Israeli diplomat, in a video seen by AFP on Friday, has instructed envoys to quote the Bible as giving Jews sovereignty over the entire Holy Land, including the West Bank.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, a deeply religious Jewish woman, was sworn in last week as a member of Israel’s new rightwing government.

The video shows a speech she gave on Thursday to foreign ministry staff in Jerusalem, which local media said was beamed to 106 Israeli missions overseas.

“It is important to say that this land is ours, all of it is ours. We didn’t come here to apologise for this,” she said.

READ:Israel returns 15 confiscated Gaza fishing boats

Religious nationalists like Hotovely support Jewish sovereignty throughout the biblical “Land of Israel” and oppose the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza, a cornerstone of international proposals to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The international community deals with considerations of morality and justice. Facing this, we have to return to the basic truth of our right to this land,” she said.

She also quoted a medieval Jewish bible scholar’s treatise on the story of creation in the book of Genesis.

A participant at the event told AFP some diplomats were shocked to hear such a senior official lay down scriptural writings as guidelines for Israeli foreign policy.

"This land is ours, all of it is ours" says Israeli deputy foreign minister - The Express Tribune

 

[Sugarcane]

He can also instruct him to quote Quran as well.

 

[Winchester]

He can also instruct him to quote Quran as well.

*SHE

 

[TheNoob]

*SHE

HER NOSE! OMG so jewish.

 

[Winchester]

HER NOSE! OMG so jewish.

I thought that nose thing was with the Persians even Arabs (Lebanese i heard have quite a high rate of nose jobs)

 

[Abingdonboy]

JERUSALEM: A top Israeli diplomat, in a video seen by AFP on Friday, has instructed envoys to quote the Bible as giving Jews sovereignty over the entire Holy Land, including the West Bank.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, a deeply religious Jewish woman, was sworn in last week as a member of Israel’s new rightwing government.

The video shows a speech she gave on Thursday to foreign ministry staff in Jerusalem, which local media said was beamed to 106 Israeli missions overseas.

“It is important to say that this land is ours, all of it is ours. We didn’t come here to apologise for this,” she said.

READ:Israel returns 15 confiscated Gaza fishing boats

Religious nationalists like Hotovely support Jewish sovereignty throughout the biblical “Land of Israel” and oppose the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza, a cornerstone of international proposals to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The international community deals with considerations of morality and justice. Facing this, we have to return to the basic truth of our right to this land,” she said.

She also quoted a medieval Jewish bible scholar’s treatise on the story of creation in the book of Genesis.

A participant at the event told AFP some diplomats were shocked to hear such a senior official lay down scriptural writings as guidelines for Israeli foreign policy.

"This land is ours, all of it is ours" says Israeli deputy foreign minister - The Express Tribune

No one can deny who is in possession of the land at this moment in time, no power on earth can change that- the rest is irrelevant.

 

[hussain0216]

Says the woman from Georgia

 

[denel]

I propose palestine and isreal become a complete federation. Look at state of affairs across the arab world as a casing point.

 

[hussain0216]

Keep the arab/mmuslim population growing

its already to the point where jews are a minority across Gaza, Israel and the west bank

Keep having chilren, keep marrying, never let these poles, Russians jews pretending to be middle eastern have any peace

Let them create a apartheid state to keep the jew state idea alive

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Pure nonsense. The only people that can claim kinship to that land are Arab Jews who already make up over 50% of Israel's population. 21% of Israel's population is Arab and the number keeps increasing. May the blessed mother's of Palestine continue their Islamic and patriotic duty of peacefully regaining their stolen land.

Besides the Palestinian areas are under full Palestinian control and no Jews will uproot more land.

@Falcon29

Israel will never live in peace until they change policy and they are becoming a bigger apartheid state for each year and more criticism is labelled at them.

 

[UKBengali]

No one can deny who is in possession of the land at this moment in time, no power on earth can change that- the rest is irrelevant.

Possession can always change.

A few million Jews cannot hold back hundreds of millions of Arabs for too long.

 

[Winchester]

No one can deny who is in possession of the land at this moment in time

Israel controls the land and for the foreseeable future will continue to do so

no power on earth can change that

Time will tell
Israel has had smart leadership for most of its existence hence one the reasons for its survival
Not sure having a deputy foreign minister who tells her staff about the need to use religious scriptures to justify your position qualifies as smart leadership

 

[hussain0216]

I propose palestine and isreal become a complete federation. Look at state of affairs across the arab world as a casing point.

Do you mean one state

 

[Abingdonboy]

Possession can always change.

A few million Jews cannot hold back hundreds of millions of Arabs for too long.

They done a damn fine job of it so far. The Israelis are resilient, cunning, pragmatic and fearsome- NO ONE is going to displace them, it doesn't matter how many Arabs are there. The Arabs are too busy fighting each other, funding terror outfits and generally being lazy to do anything about it- we all know how embarrassingly toothless Arab militaries are in reality. Compare that to the single-minded, focused and honed Israeli military who will do whatever it takes to defend their homeland, I would place my money on the IDF every day for the rest of my existence.

 

[denel]

Do you mean one state

yes.