Netanyahu: Palestinians must face reality over Jerusalem

Palestinians must “get to grips with” the reality that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital in order to move towards peace, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.Mr Netanyahu spoke as protests continued in the Muslim and Arab world at US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US recognised Jerusalem as the capital.The prime minister said Jerusalem had been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years and had “never been the capital of any other people”.Speaking in Paris after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Netanyahu said efforts to deny the “millennial connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem” were “absurd”.”You can read it in a very fine book – it’s called the Bible,” he said. “You can read it after the Bible. You can hear it in the history of Jewish communities throughout our diaspora… Where else is the capital of Israel, but in Jerusalem?

 

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