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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-882884
Israel's U.S. Ambassador: "We Don't Occupy Anybody Else's Land. We're Indigenous to the Land of Israel."
(Jerusalem Post) Corinne Baum - Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter told Congregation Ahavath Sholom in Fort Worth, Texas: "The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan made peace with Israel without conditions." "They didn't say divide Jerusalem. They didn't say give up the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the settlements. No. They made peace. Why? Because they're promoting an Islam that says [we can live] side-by-side with Western civilization instead of defeating Western civilization." He told the Jerusalem Post in an interview: "Our introduction to Judaism is an instruction to Abraham. 'Leave your father's home, your birthplace, and go to the land which I will show you.' You can't change history. That's how Jewish history begins, with Zionism, connecting the people and the land. We don't occupy anybody else's land. We're indigenous to the Land of Israel. We don't need to apologize for being who we are: the Land of Israel and the people of Israel." He said the Israel-Hamas war "isn't a border dispute....It tore the mask off the notion that all we have to do is give up a few km. here, give up a few km. there, divide Jerusalem....That's not the issue. They're talking about destroying the State of Israel." Leiter hit out against those who accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza. "If we committed what we're being accused of doing, my son, my friends' sons, would be alive today. We didn't bomb population centers from the air. We went in on foot to weed out the terrorists." Maj. (res.) Moshe Leiter was killed in action alongside three other reservists in Beit Hanun. When he found the entrance to a Hamas tunnel he announced it on the radio, but then terrorists underground blew up the tunnel. "Had we just bombed that area because we knew that there was a tunnel there, they could be alive."