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According to Haaretz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that Israel needs to part from the Palestinians and relinquish portions of the West Bank. Netanyahu added that it was important for Israel to “preserve the solid Jewish majority inside the State of Israel.”

According to the Haaretz report, the prime minister’s comments came during a presentation by the Jewish People Policy Institute to the cabinet on demographic changes with the Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. Netanyahu cut short the presentation to make his observations and surprised his cabinet members with the comments about relinquishing parts of the West Bank. The Prime Minister’s Office after the meeting did not brief the media on the prime minister’s comments and did not respond to any questions on the topic and aides to the prime minister asked those attending the meeting not to disseminate the details.