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Rabbi threatens civil war if settlements are evacuated

Jerusalem Post reports thousand of mostly religious demonstrators attended a rally in Jerusalem. Shalom Dov Wolpe, a prominent religious author and political activist and a Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi, threatens civil war if any settlements are evacuated:

There will be a civil war and the creation of a new, autonomous entity, the Authority of Judea and Samaria, should the government evacuate even the smallest West Bank settlement, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe warned at a Jerusalem rally on Thursday night.

“If you [Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu] want a civil war, there will be one,” said Wolpe, whose Eretz Yisrael Shelanu movement organized the event..

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