Netanyahu: Arabs and Jews alike benefit from unified Jerusalem

02.06.2011                      29.Ijar, 5771                      Jom Kippur Katan; Tag 44 des Omer

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Netanyahu: Arabs and Jews alike benefit from unified Jerusalem

Prime Minister tells special Jerusalem Day session of Knesset that the developments and changes being made in capital are 'essential to its future'; Rivlin: We promised a united Jerusalem, but we failed to deliver.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday that the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 Six-Day War gave the city the "momentum to develop", for Jewish and Arab citizens alike.
"There are those in the Knesset who were born after the Six Day War," Netanyahu told a special Knesset session held in honor of the annual Jerusalem Day.. "Another 54 of you were younger than 10 when Jerusalem was freed. Like many in Jerusalem, many of you cannot remember how Jerusalem was divided."…