owards compromise no less than Israelis. He should be pressing them to close the "peace gap" by accepting the historic ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and the legitimacy of Israel's existence in the Middle East as a Jewish state — which, in principle, includes Judea and Samaria. He should be call

ia Yosef has occasionally stated that giving up territory for peace is halachically permissible. His son Yaakov is opposed to handing over areas of the Land of Israel to Arabs.) Several right-wing MKs called for the resignation of the police minister (a member of Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beiteinu Party and Isr

tate for the Palestinian pi Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation state of the Jewish people. The people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the land of our fora Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Na not lift up sword against nat

d in May of 1948, when I was nine and a half years old. Following its bold declaration that after 2,000 years of exile, there arose a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, (supported by the United Nations, the United States, the Soviet Union and most western nations), the nascent state was attacked by the armies of the