Netanyahu: ‘Unfortunately the Palestinians Not Only Deny the Past, They Also Poison the Present’

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NETANYAHU: "They even deny our historical connection to our homeland. And I suppose you have to ask yourself, why are Jews called Jews? The Chinese are called Chinese because they come from China, the Japanese are called Japanese because they come from Japan. Well, Jews are called Jews because they come from Judea. This is our ancestral homeland. Jews are not foreign colonialists in Judea. Unfortunately the Palestinians not only deny the past, they also poison the present. They name public squares in honor of mass murderers who murdered Israelis and I have to say also murdered Americans. They pay monthly salaries to the families of murderers like the family of the murderers who killed Taylor Force, a wonderful young American, a West Point graduate who was stabbed to death while visiting Israel, so this is the source of the conflict, the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any boundary, this persistent rejectionism."