Embassy of the State of Palestine

Minister of Transportation and Minister of Intelligence Yisrael Katz: “The important message [conveyed by] the cabinet meeting is that united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The freezing of construction in the settlements of Judea and Samaria will be cancelled and no settlement will ever be taken down.” (Link to Source)

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Knesset Member Ayoob Kara: “Israel shouldn't apologize for intending to annex Judea and Samaria. We should be determined to implement our right to these historic areas of our homeland. Politicians who mistakenly believe that we are still in the Obama era need to 'change their disk.” (Link to Source)

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: “It was a just war. It is a just defense. But the most important one, it was based on a just claim. A just claim of the Jewish people on Beit El, Shechem, Jerusalem and Hebron. Let me tell you something, if those places are not Jewish, who can tell me that Herzliya, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv are Jewish. I always say that the occupation is a myth, because we never occupied other people’s land. This is Jewish land. This should forever be a Jewish land under Israeli law.” (Link to Source)

“I think that now, 50 years after the Six Day War, it’s about time for us to say in a very clear way: Half a million Jews live in a Jewish land. We’re not occupiers in our own land. And this is why we have the natural right to build in Judea and Samaria. The most important thing is for the American administration to understand the needs of those communities, where after eight years of having no ability to plan new buildings, I think it’s about time for us to say: We need this like air to breathe.” (Link to Source)

“We need to go to a million settlers in Judea and Samaria - with a US embassy in Jerusalem. We need to think of new ways of thinking that will include Judea & Samaria under Israeli sovereignty forever.” (Link to Source)

“The situation in which the Palestinians have an organization that perpetuates fifth-generation refugee status must end and their refugee status must be the same as what is accepted by the UN refugee agency as limited to the first generation only. UNRWA must continue to function as an humanitarian organization only.” (Link to Source)

Knesset Members Yoav Kish and Bezalel Smotrich: In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both MKs wrote, “The freeze is illegitimate, not even 'in the meantime' or as an 'interim stage', and certainly no freeze or construction restrictions outside the blocs.” (Link to Source)

Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant: “Of course, it is difficult to have a strong Jerusalem without [the settlements of] Givat Ze’ev, Ma’aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion and all these places.” (Link to Source)

Knesset Member Betzalel Smotrich: “They will continue to scream and we will continue to work to develop Jewish towns in all of Israel. This is a matter of life and death, but the opposition has no problem yelling about every shekel we give residents of Judea and Samaria. We will continue to do everything we can for these idealistic civilians who endanger their lives every day by living in Judea and Samaria, in order to protect the rest of us.” (Link to Source)

 “One cannot be an ‘occupier’ in their own land, so what we’re talking about isn’t ‘annexation’, but extension of sovereignty in our land. We will continue in the footsteps of the Zionist leaders who extended sovereignty over parts of our land in 1948, 1967, and 1981,” said the MKs, referencing the establishment of the State of Israel, the annexation of eastern Jerusalem after the Six Day War, and the application of Israeli law to the Golan Heights in 1981.” (Link to Source)

Knesset Member Miki Zohar: “The two-state solution is dead.  What is left is the one-state solution with the Arabs here as, not as full-citizenship, because full-citizenship can let them vote to the Knesset.” (Link to Source)

Knesset Member Yehuda Glick: “[The two-state solution] is not a solution.  It's deepening the problem. We've overcame the final solution where we are going to overcome the two-state, the so-called solution.  This is our land. God brought us back here and we will build the land and peace is win win. [It] is building... People have to recognize the fact that we are here for good. The Arabs living next to us have a chance to benefit from being part of our land.” (Link to Source)

"There is no law [that discriminates against Palestinians]. Israel is not what is wrong in the Middle East. Israel is what is right in the Middle East." (Link to Source)

“Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people for thousands of years, since King David. That’s a fact that nobody can deny. Now is the time for the US president to keep his promise and the law passed by Congress in 1995 and lead the free world to recognize reality and declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and the Jewish people.” (Link to Source)

Knesset Member Tzachi Hanegbi: “Defense is important and security is important but the most important thing is the moral claim of Israel and we are committed to living in our regional land, land that was given to us not by Google or Wikipedia but by the Bible King David, King Saul, King David, King Solomon, Abraham and this is the right, which we are going to demand our right forever and ever.” (Link to Source)

Former Knesset Member Yoni Chetboun: “You hear how the idea of ​​a Palestinian state in past AIPAC conferences was part of the consensus and the central discourse. At the current conference, they understand that the idea has died, this idea has collapsed, and now we're thinking how to move forward, and here is where you now find the nuances of right and left. The bottom line is to see how Israeli society is turning rightward, and the entire world, following terrorism, moves to the right in terms of the need to strike at terror and that the idea of ​​a Palestinian state cannot be relied upon. It is time we raised this flag without any connection to security and say this is our land.” (Link to Source)