Blue and White minister: West Bank sovereignty should be our goal

Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich (Blue and White) tours settlements in the West Bank’s northern Samaria region and meets with local leaders.

Meeting with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, Yankelevich says: “Judea and Samaria are the lands of our forefathers. Some people talk of these places in terms of benefit and cost.

“We must always stress that this is our land, we should not be ashamed to say it,” she says. “Applying sovereignty should eventually be our goal, under the right conditions.”

Though officially Blue and White’s leaders have said they support the annexation plan, they have couched such statements with caveats that this should only be done with the support and agreement of Israel’s neighbors — a virtual impossibility without a bilateral peace accord.