Chairman Avi Dichter of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee called on Sunday for the inclusion of sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
Speaking during a tour of the Gush Etzion area between Jerusalem and Hevron, Dichter promised, "This is a task that I am taking with me to the next Knesset and to the next government." He added, "The Palestinian Authority with its own hands has put an end to their state. As far as I am concerned, there will be no Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. These things are well understood by Prime Minister Netanyahu, and previous prime ministers understood this as well."