"Indeed, there was little daylight between the
two men’s positions. Mr. Lapid said he would not stop the so-called
“natural expansion” of settlements in the West Bank, nor curtail the
financial incentives offered Israelis to move there. He said the large
swaths of land known as East Jerusalem that Israel captured from Jordan
in the 1967 war and later annexed must stay Israeli because “we didn’t
come here for nothing.”
“Jerusalem is not a place, Jerusalem is an idea,” he said. “Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli state.”"
