Jeffrey Sachs

And when I first went in 1972, the first settlements were taking place.

And I was a high school kid, so I didn't understand much of anything of what was going on.

But they told me this was making facts on the ground so that

This would be ours.

We would have our security and so forth.

Facts on the ground was the famous expression.

When I continued to go back in the mid-70s, the late 70s, suddenly there were

groups of young zealots dancing in the streets of Jerusalem, proclaiming God's will about these settlements, because these were settlements in places mentioned in the Bible.

This was suddenly now the redemption of God's promise.

This was something new.

This was not traditional Judaism, but I mean, traditional from

400 AD to 1970, I'm talking about 1600 years or so, this was something brand new.

It was a fervor

It was a zealotry.

It was a fundamentalism that emerged that said, this is ours.

No one can interfere with this.

More than that, it's God's command that we control this land.

It's not about security.

It's not about division.

It's not about where to draw lines.