There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
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I have faced difficult problems in the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in leading the country.
Permalink to quote #4 We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Permalink to quote #6 How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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