(Ha'aretz) Noa Shpigel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Upper Nazareth on Sunday to attend an Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum event in honor of the upcoming Christmas holiday. The forum, headed by Father Gabriel Nadaf, encourages Christian Arabs to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu told the crowd how he had accompanied his son Avner to the enlistment office on Dec. 1. The very next day, Nadaf accompanied his own son, Jubran, to the enlistment office. "We are brothers, we are partners - Christians and Jews and Druze and Muslims who defend the State of Israel," he said. Netanyahu also discussed the recent wave of European parliaments that have passed resolutions calling on their governments to recognize a Palestinian state, saying he urged those parliaments "to listen to what Hamas is saying - that it will take over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] and set up another Hamastan there. We have not and will not let them do this."
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