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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=17359
Netanyahu: Refusal to Recognize Israel as Jewish Is the Root of the Conflict
(Israel Hayom) Shlomo Cesana and Gideon Allon - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday that the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the refusal to recognize Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people. "The conflict has been ongoing for 90 years. It is not continuing because of the settlements, because of the territories - it exists and continues because of the ongoing refusal to recognize Israel as the national home of the Jewish people." Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday: "I do not think Hamas and Fatah will be able to resolve their differences, and therefore they won't even reach the point of an election." Ya'alon clarified that even if the deal does go through, Israel would not allow Hamas to participate in elections in the West Bank, as it did in the past.