On the other hand, 65 percent of Jewish Israelis said that Israel's control of the region contributes to Israel's security, as opposed to 29.7 percent who disagreed.
Netanyahu told Israeli settlers yesterday he would keep building across the West Bank, while Israeli authorities also advanced plans for some 1,500 settlement homes in the Palestinian territory. First, if the approach is adopted, it splits the Arabs and puts even more space between the Gulf States and the Palestinians, thereby weakening the latter at the negotiating table. Speaking at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the war, Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel's seeks "a real peace" with its neighbors; "a peace that will last generations" but Israel will continue to "maintain security control over all the territory west of the Jordan (river)" with or without an agreement.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel on Monday for what he called its "occupation of the Palestinian territory" on the 50th anniversary of the its defensive 1967 Six Day War.
About 600,000 Jews live in approximately 140 settlements constructed since the occupation in 1967 of the West Bank and East Jerusalem - in land the Palestinians want for their future state.
Israel has pursued an increasingly aggressive settlement regime despite broad global condemnation, eating away at Palestinian territory and torpedoing the chances of success for a two-state reality.
There is a solid constituency for peace on both sides of the Green Line, both among Israelis and Palestinians. "It is the only way to achieve the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people", he said.
Conservatives To Form Govt With DUP
May called the DUP her "friends and allies", and aims to have an informal partnership with them to govern. But former party leader Iain Duncan Smith said a leadership contest now would be a "catastrophe".
Roughly 500,000 Israelis now live on more than 100 Jewish-only settlements built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Israel occupied the territories in 1967.
"On 14 May 1948, the State of Israel was born".
Yousef Al-Mahmoud, the Palestinian government spokesperson said in a press release that the agreement was signed in a rare meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and the Israeli minister of finance Moshe Kahlon in Ramallah.
After the 1967 war, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and deems all of the city its "indivisible and eternal capital", a status not recognised internationally.
Another activist described the continuation of the Israeli occupation over the past half a century as "a very bad thing".
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