Israeli ministers cementing settlements to solidify hold on Jordan Valley
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Quoting a statement of Abba Eban, who was foreign minister after the Six-Day War, Elkin said “The 1967 borders are Auschwitz borders." (...)
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Israeli calls to maintain a permanent presence in the Jordan Valley are nothing new, dating to the days of the then Minister of Labor Yigal Allon, who drafted a plan that carried his name shortly after the Six-Day War. But the future of Israel’s control over the Jordan Valley and the 6,000 Jewish settlers living there came into the international limelight earlier this week with the passage of the annexation bill by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, 8 to 3.