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Chuck Schumer: “Jewish people have lived in the homeland continuously for…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senator Chuck Schumer's Address on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Two-State Solution

Published | Video Starts at 12:55

Both Jews and Palestinians have long historic claims to this land. Contrary to the unfounded, absurd and offensive claims by some that the Jewish people are colonizers in their ancestral homeland. Jewish people have lived in the homeland continuously for more than three millennia. 3,000 years. For centuries, Jews have made aliyah and gone to the land of Israel to live and settle. For centuries at Passover, Jews at every corner of the globe have prayed next year in Jerusalem. (12:55–13:03)

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Asserts that Jews have lived in the region for over 3,000 years.

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