Danny Danon on West Bank rights
by Giantkebab: Israel
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon tells sky news.com the West Bank is not occupied territory but Israel's land. He cites historical and biblical rights to the area 🇮🇱
Transcript (en)
Good to see you this evening. It would be interesting to get your thoughts on Diana's report there and the fact that the UK government has told UK firms not to engage in economic activity with West Bank settlements. Well, I think we saw another one-sided report. Unfortunately, it's not the first time we see it coming from Sky News that ignored the entire facts. We have rights to the land. It's not occupied land. This is our land. I can go back to the British mandate for Palestine or the Balfour Declaration. And basically, we have legal rights to the land. We have historical rights to the land. We even have biblical rights to the land. So to call us settlers in our own land, it's a disgrace. But let's look at the facts and about the future. The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere. They will stay there with the Palestinian communities. The question of what you do to allow both communities to prosper, to live in stability, in security. And I think all the talk we hear now coming from the UK and other European countries, you know, applying sanctions or threatening the Israeli government, it's not going to actually support what's happening on the ground. The bottom line, you have more than two million Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria. You have more than half a million Jews who live there, cities, communities. not the outpost you just showed in your report. I'm talking about families, communities, big cities, and they will stay there. The question is what we do to make sure that both populations live safely there.
