‘Our Land Is Not Stolen’: Netanyahu Responds to Obama on Palestinian Lands

Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Barack Obama’s criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the lands it controls. In a video posted on X on Friday, the Israeli prime minister defended the Jewish people’s historical ties to the land, saying they were neither foreign occupiers nor engaged in a colonial enterprise. Obama had said in Belfast on Tuesday that Israel had taken land from Palestinians and acted excessively. The article recalls that UN Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted in 2016, deemed Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, to have no legal validity.