OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli minister Uzi Landau has called for the boosting of settlement activity in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil, calling the town the ”heart of Israel”.
[Al-Khalil] is the real infrastructure of Israel, and not water and energy, the minister of infrastructure said in a report by Israeli channel seven. He expressed regret that Israeli schools have failed to teach the youth enough about this ”fact”.
Landau visited the city earlier this week as well as the enclave settlement Karyat Arba to meet with chief settlers there.
He stressed the need to organize tourism campaigns in the city and to educate about it at homes and in schools starting at the kindergarten level and during military service. He also called for construction inside.
The change must start from the city itself, the minister said, adding that it is the ”root of Jews”. And he expressed desire that the change to the educational, political, and military services would make it so that Al-Khalil would be a leading center.
”By changing the heart, the rest will follow,” he said.
He called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the two cities Jerusalem and Al-Khalil, urging him to start his speech by saying that he came from the land of ”Hebron and Zion”, and by detailing the Jews' right to the land and emphasizing the fairness of the Zionist project.
Israel declared the Ibrahimi Mosque a Jewish heritage site in February 2010. According to analysts, the decision came amid talks of returning to the negotiation table with the Palestinian Authority.
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