"According to the school of thought based on history and faith, the Land of Israel was received by the Jewish people from the hand of God, and we are commanded to take all of it by dint of the Covenant of the Pieces that God made with Abraham. That was a nice big gift, we have to admit, stretching from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates (…) Suddenly we are short of space here in Israel, which has become full to capacity and needs Lebensraum (…) We were fortunate when we occupied the West Bank because had we not done so, where would we have come to live? And who knows how high housing prices would have risen? The divine promise is now being revealed in all its ability to prophesy about real estate."
Bisher gab es vor allem zwei Begründungen für die Okkupation der Westbank: Sicherheit und göttliches Erbe. Nun, schreibt Yossi Sarid im Haaretz-Kommentar (26. August), ist eine weitere Säule hinzugekommen: Bezahlbarer Lebensraum
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