Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein tells a meeting of UK parliamentarians that focusing on the Israeli presence in the West Bank will not bring solutions to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Edelstein says making the debate about settlements is counter productive.
“We need to focus on dealing with the problems of right now and not throw these cliches of settlements and settlement issues,” he says.
“I promise you that when I get to my constituency in Israel, I have a desire to run away because they’re killing me for the freeze in Judea and Samaria, killing me! They say ‘you just promise, you don’t build anything, get out of here we don’t want to hear these lies any more, everything is frozen, not a single house is being built.’
“We will not get to any solutions as long as we will believe that the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria in the heart of the problem in the Middle East,” he says.
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