Likud lawmakers to government: Keep Palestinian workers out

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Israel’s Knesset building

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 18 (ANI/TPS): Palestinian laborers from Judea and Samaria should not be allowed to return to work across the Green Line inside Israel’s pre-1967 territory, a dozen Likud lawmakers wrote in a letter to Cabinet members made public on Wednesday. “The time has come to say explicitly that no more Palestinian workers will be allowed to enter Israel,” read the letter. The letter was backed by Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli. “Besides our security obligation, we also have a moral duty–we are not responsible for the livelihoo…

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