The ideology of the so called "Jewish State" based on the idea ‘that God gave the Jews the land from the river to the sea,’ became the policy of successive Israeli governments - even after the 1967 war, (especially of the Likud governments).
The leader of the Likud party, former and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asserts in his book published in 1993 that according to “historic rights!”, the Arabs may not claim national rights in Palestine because there never was a Palestinian people other than the Jews (Netanyahu, 1993, 4). Further, the Israeli Likud Party, under the leadership of Yitzak Shamir in his electoral platform for the thirteenth Knesset (June 1992) announced that, “The State of Israel has the right to sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip. He added that: “The Arabs of Judea and Samaria are Jordanian citizens.” Further, the Tzomet party, under the leadership of General Rafael Eitan, claims that the “solution to the problem of Palestinian nationalism must be east of the Jordan river, as Palestinians there constitute the vast majority of the population.” Whereas in the Moledet party programme, under the leadership of General Rahban Za’eefi, he said: “Judea and Samaria will be subject to Israeli sovereignty, by full annexation to Israel, after the departure of its Arab residents.” Later, there were no fundamental changes to political programmes of the parties of the right in the subsequent elections (Hersigor and Morris 2000, 9-10).
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