(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to the Jordan Valley on Tuesday that in any future agreement the IDF will have to stay on the Jordan River. "This is Israel's defense line," Netanyahu said, adding that if this was true in the past, it is currently "seven times truer" now, considering the upheaval in the Middle East. He said there is no alternative to an IDF presence there to keep terrorists and rockets from coming into Tel Aviv, Haifa and the rest of the country.
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