Likud lawmakers to gov't: keep Palestinian workers out
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January 26, 2024
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Palestinian workers enter the Israeli town of Ma'aleh Adumim following an attempted stabbing attack, Feb. 23, 2023.
(JNS) - Palestinian laborers from Judea and Samaria should not be allowed to return to work across the Green Line inside Israel's pre-1967 territory, a dozen Likud lawmakers wrote in a letter to Cabinet members made public on Wednesday.
"The time has come to say explicitly that no more Palestinian workers will be allowed to enter Israel," read the letter, which received backing from Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli.
"Besides our security obligation, we also have a moral duty-we are not responsible for the livelihood of those who support the...
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