The mayor of a prominent settlement slams US President Donald Trump’s purported peace plan, as reported by Channel 13 earlier this evening.
While praising Trump for “being the first to move the American embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize our rights in the holy city,” Beit El Mayor Shai Alon says the plan, “as reported tonight, is full of holes, and of course we oppose it.”
“We did not return to Jerusalem after millennia of exile so a Jordanian guard can check us at the entrance to the Western Wall. This place has belonged to us from time immemorial, and there is no chance whatsoever that we would give it up or hand oversight of it to a third country,” Alon says.
He adds that Israel’s West Bank settlements “are working on building and strengthening these places by adding tens of thousands of new families in Judea and Samaria, not exchanging land and not freezing [construction],” both elements the Channel 13 report claims are in the Trump peace plan.
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