Unveiling a plaque in Jerusalem’s Old City, Culture Minister Miri Regev says no nation has stronger ties to their land than the Jews have to Israel.
“Mr. President Barack Obama, I am standing here, on Hanukkah 5777, on the route on which my forefathers walked 2,000 years ago. No resolution in any international forum is as strong as the steadfast stones on this street,” she says, referring to a UN Security Council resolution passed Friday which slams settlements.
“No other people in the world has such a connection and link to its land, neither in Senegal, New Zealand, Ukraine nor Malaysia,” she says, mentioning the countries that supported the resolution.
Culture Minister Miri Regev arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
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