Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan proposed Saturday that State-owned lands on the West Bank and Gaza Strip be utilized for housing projects, not only for Jews but for Arabs now in refugee camps in Gaza and young Arab couples from Nablus. “We are the legal government in these areas for the next five or six years and the welfare of the inhabitants is our duty, “he told a political forum sponsored by the Laam faction of Likud at the ZOA House here.
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