The Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Knesset from the right-wing “Yahdut” party recognized the existence of Palestinians before the Jews in Palestine, in the first statement of its kind issued by a right-wing leader.

   MK Moshe Jaffni said: “Israel has no right to negotiate with the Palestinians, because they were before it in this country, and the Jews have driven them out of their land.”

   The seventh Hebrew channel quoted Jaffni as saying: “The important thing is that Israel be a Jewish state, and otherwise we have no right to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians because they were before us here, and we expelled them from here.”