Israel said it reserves the right to return to Palestinian territories if violence continues. “Our withdrawal is a conditional withdrawal,” Zalman Shoval, representing the Israeli government, told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations after Israel pulled out of Bethlehem.
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