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PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at Second Chanukah Candle at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Lighting of the Second Chanukah Candle at the
Western Wall in Jerusalem
(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks on the second
night of Chanukah this evening (Sunday, 25 December 2016) at the Western
Wall:
“I did not plan to be here this evening but in light of the UN resolution I
thought that there was no better place to light the second Chanukah candle
than the Western Wall. According to the UN resolution, the Maccabees did not
liberate Jerusalem, they occupied Palestinian territory. According to the UN
resolution, the villages that they started out from in the Modi’in area,
those villages and that area were ‘occupied Palestinian territory’.
Of course the Palestinians arrived much later. We were in these places. We
will return to these places and I ask those same countries that wish us a
Happy Chanukah how they could vote for a UN resolution which says that this
place, in which we are now celebrating Chanukah, is occupied territory.
The Western Wall is not occupied. The Jewish Quarter is not occupied. The
other places are not occupied either. Therefore, we do not accept, nor can
we accept, this resolution. We are certain of our future just as we are
certain of our past. And here I would like to light Chanukah candles on
behalf of the Glory of Israel. Happy Chanukah.”
Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=71941
