The Clinton administration should respect an American addendum to the 1996 Hebron Agreement that said Israel has the right to decide the size of any further redeployments from the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a closed session of delegates to the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Conference. Acording to a tape of the speech obtained by JTA, Netanyahu said the view of Israel’s security is different from the banks of the Potomac River in Washington than from the banks of the Jordan River. Netanyahu spoke immediately before the group of some 3,000 activists visited Capitol Hill to lobby their legislators.
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