Most Israeli Jews want Arabs out

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 22, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

A majority of the Jewish public in Israel – 63.7 percent – believes the Israeli government should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate from Israel, according to a University of Haifa poll released yesterday.

The survey, conducted by the university's National Security Study Center, also found 48.6 percent of the Israeli Jews polled said the government was too sympathetic to the Arab population. The majority of Jewish respondents, 55.3 percent, said Israeli Arabs endangered national security, while 45.3 percent said they supported revoking Israeli Arabs' right to vote and hold political office.

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About one-quarter of the Jewish public said they would consider voting for an ultra-right-wing party if such a party were to run in the next elections, the survey revealed.

Arabs living in Israel have more rights than those living in any Arab country, including the right to vote and hold office, and Israel's Arabs have a higher per-capita income than Arabs in the rest of the Mideast.

Some nationalist movements and parties in Israel have been advocating the transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan, but Jordan's King Abdullah has always been against such moves, which could threaten his Heshimite minority rule.

"The Palestinians are no different from the rest of the Arabs in the Mideast," Benny Elon of Israel's National Union Party told WND.

"Israel's most dangerous strategy was the creation of a 'Palestinian People,' a so-called indigenous people, as if to justify the existence of a group of Arabs as worthy and rightful owners of parts of Israel," Elon said.

Palestinians speak the same dialect of Arabic that is used in Jordan and Syria, and have the same family structure, customs, dress, foods, music and social values as most of the Arab world.

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Aaron Klein is WorldNetDaily's special Middle East correspondent, whose past interview subjects have included Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Shlomo Ben Ami and leaders of the Taliban.

P>"Israel's most dangerous strategy was the creation of a 'Palestinian People,' a so-called indigenous people, as if to justify the existence of a group of Arabs as worthy and rightful owners of parts of Israel," Elon said.
Palestinians speak the same dialect of Arabic that is used in Jordan and Syria, and have the same family structure, customs, dress, foods, music and social values as most of the Arab world.

That's something I've always wondered about.

Another question I've had is: What's it like today to be a "Palestinian" living on the East bank of the Jordan?

From "Palestinian people do not exist" by Joseph Farah:

Truth does not change. Truth is truth. If something was true 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, it is still true today.

And the truth is that only 30 years ago, there was very little confusion on this issue of Palestine.

You might remember the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir making the bold political statement: "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people."

The statement has been a source of ridicule and derision by Arab propagandists ever since. They love to talk about Golda Meir's "racism." They love to suggest she was in historical denial. They love to say her statement is patently false – an intentional lie, a strategic deception.

What they don't like to talk about, however, are the very similar statements made by Yasser Arafat and his inner circle of political leadership years after Meir had told the truth – that there is no distinct Palestinian cultural or national identity.

So, despite the fact that conventional wisdom has now proclaimed that there is such a thing as the Palestinian people, I'm going to raise those uncomfortable quotations made by Arafat and his henchmen when their public-relations guard was down.

Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

That's pretty clear, isn't it? It's even more specific than Golda Meir's statement.

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