A four-member delegation of the ultra-nationalist Gush Emunim movement in Israel has arrived here to launch a campaign “to inform and convince the American people of the rightful ownership of the Jewish people to the whole of the land of Israel.”
The four Gush leaders, Hanan Porath, Zvi Slonim, Mitchell Heifetz and Jacob Dovev, issued a statement at a press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel here today welcoming the “dialogue which recently developed between Israel and Egypt,” but reiterated at the same time the Gush’s adamant rejection of any territorial concessions to obtain peace. The statement also called for a largescale settlement plan “to retain the integrity of the land of Israel.”
The statement also read in part: “The final borders (of Israel) must do justice to the historical Jewish right to the land and the area within its boundaries must be such as to enable absorption of the majority of the Jewish people. The land of Israel includes Judaea, Samaria, the Golan and areas in Sinai…” The statement continued: “In the land of Israel there is room for only one national home and entity, namely that of the Jewish people.” During their U.S. visit, the Gush leaders plan to establish a net work of communications for their organization to increase aliya to Israel.
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