JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says a peace agreement with the Palestinians is unreachable unless they recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland.

Moshe Yaalon, told channel 2 TV Saturday, “it is impossible to make an agreement without there being recognition on the other side of our right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people.”

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