"Israel on Tuesday said remarks by the U.N. Mideast envoy "distort history" after he declared that Israel's settlement-building is a main obstacle to peace with the Palestinians...
David Keyes, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the comments 'distort history.'
'Jews have been in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria for thousands of years and their presence there is not an obstacle to peace,' Keyes said in a statement, using the biblical names for the West Bank.
'The obstacle to peace is the unending attempt to deny the Jewish People's connection to parts of their historic land,' Keyes added..."
August 30, 2016
Israel Says UN Envoy's Settlement Remarks 'Distort History'
View of Maale Adumim, an Israeli community in Judea and Samaria
Date
August 30, 2016
Title
Israel Says UN Envoy’s Settlement Remarks ‘Distort History’, AP
Author(s)
Ian Deitch
Original Source
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