Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Gallant vowed yesterday that “the only national state that can exist in Israel is the Zionist state”.
Gallant, who hails from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, made the remarks while making a fresh attack against the Palestinian presence in the occupied southern West Bank and the Negev.
Israel minister: ‘The only national state that can exist in Israel is the Zionist state’ – https://t.co/RdTIoXpp3G via @MiddleEastMnt #Palestine #TerroristIsrael pic.twitter.com/80oVAtQm7F
— al whit (@soitiz) June 8, 2018
He said:
“Those who want to establish a sub-state – it cannot be in our home. With the support of hostile elements from the southern Hebron hills and the support of Arab MKs, there has been a process of Islamisation that begins from the Judean fortresses through the Bedouin towns to the Dimona crater.”
Gallant continued:
“This reality contradicts the national vision and I am not willing to give up our hold on the land. It cannot be that in the 21st century, only 100,000 Jews will live south of Be’er Sheva”.
Here are the remarks on the Knesset site in English, where Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Gallant backs "a long term and stable solution for a Jewish hold over the region [Negev]." https://t.co/RKBwf6m7AQ pic.twitter.com/yLmBNwee9r
— Ben White (@benabyad) June 5, 2018
Earlier this week, speaking in the Knesset, Gallant made similar remarks, claiming that “the south is under attack not only from Gaza”, citing “the illegal and hostile construction in the rural Bedouin areas in the Negev”, and “the Palestinian Islamist expansion from the Hebron area”.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
