Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's statement that Israel must maintain a presence in the Jordan valley, a day after Netanyahu made the statement.
Netanyahu had said that the Jewish state must ensure "an efficient way, at the entry and exit points, to stop rockets from being smuggled into the territories close to Israel." This, he said, “will require an Israeli presence on the eastern side of the Palestinian state.”
The PA chairman rejected the idea. “The Palestinian leadership will not accept the presence of a single Israeli soldier in the Palestinian territories after the end of the occupation,"
The Palestinians still call the presence of Israelis in the land of Israel (given to them by Yahweh) an "occupation" in Palestinian territory.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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