“I am completely and unequivocally opposed to the surrender of any of the liberated areas currently under negotiation, such as Judea and Samaria, and the Golan, for the simple reason, and only reason, that surrendering any part of them would contravene a clear psak din [legal ruling] in the Shulchan Aruch [the ruling cited above]. I have repeatedly emphasized that this ruling [on which I base my opinion] has nothing to do with the sanctity of Eretz Yisrael . . . but solely with the rule of pikuach nefesh.”25 That is why he opposed giving the Palestinians a homeland on the lands that Israel had
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