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Posted By richards on February 13, 2017

President Reuvin Rivlin holds land deeds he purchased from a Palestinian in the West Bank 40 years ago while speaking at the Jerusalem Conference. (photo credit:YISRAEL BARDOGO)

In a possible harbinger signaling an official shift in government policy, President Reuvin Rivlin on Monday said he supported the full annexation of the West Bank, in exchange for complete Israeli citizenship and equal rights granted to Palestinian residents.

Stating that he believes Zion is entirely ours, and that the sovereignty of the State of Israel must be in all the blocs, at the opening day of the 14th Jerusalem Conference, Rivlin may have tested the waters for the one-state solution he has long championed.

It must be clear, he cautioned a packed auditorium of right-wing participants attending the two-day symposium at the capitals Crowne Plaza. If we extend sovereignty, the law must apply equally to all. Applying sovereignty to an area gives citizenship to all those living there.

Rivlin continued: There are no separate laws for Israelis and for non-Israelis.

While the president condemned the recently passed Regulation Law, which retroactively grants ownership of thousands of contested Jewish homes built on Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank, he nonetheless expressed the importance of Israeli sovereignty.

On Sunday, Haaretz reported that Rivlin dismissed the law, which is likely to be overturned by the High Court, for engendering an apartheid state.

Still, while holding a 40-year-old Arabic deed proving his purchase of land in the West Bank, which was contested by the seller before Rivlin won a protracted court case in Ramallah verifying his ownership, he proudly asserted: This Ashkenazi is registered in Ramallah.

The 14th annual Jerusalem Conference features a wide array of the governments highest ranking officials to examine several key issues concerning the capital, and country, as it marks its 50th year after the 1967 War.

Hosted by the Besheva Media Group, the conference, which brings together the countrys most preeminent thought leaders, will continue on Tuesday between 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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