An Israeli flag is seen in front of the illegal Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim in West Bank, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, in this 2009 file photo (AP)
Moshe Gafni, an Israeli deputy from the United Torah Judaism party in the Knesset, said Monday that the Jews drove Palestinians from their land.
“They were here before us,” Gafni was quoted as saying in a news piece published by Israeli news website Arutz Sheva.
“The first important thing is that the State of Israel be a Jewish state, otherwise we have no right to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians – we removed them from here,” he went on to say, according to the website.
“If we do not have the historical right that the Jewish people have here, we have no rights.”
Even though he is a member of a far-right party, he added that he is mentally closer to the left, giving his dislike of the Reform movement as a reason he is not a member of the left. The left parties in the Knesset do not share his views on the Reform movement.
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