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'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'

[SJackson]

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The Washington Post apparently made an error in translation. Hamas does not talk about "peace in stages" but instead a "solution in stages"

For those not familiar with "peace in stages", it's the formally adopted policy of the PLO leadint to the destruction of Israel and reunification with Jordan. His arabic audience knows precisely what he's saying, and it has nothing to do with peace.

THE PLO'S PHASED PLAN--Political Programme--Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestinian National Council--Cairo, June 9, 1974

[Bon mots]

"Throw the Jews into the sea? Us Palestinians? Never!"
Push, shove, fling, dump, force... but not throw...

[infidel29]

Was there a Palestininan state in 1967? I don't believe so.

Maybe they should leave things in the same condition as well, piles of sand and rocks, no vegetation, no development, no sign of civilization?

[XR7]

All we seek is to be given our land back, not to harm anybody.

liebensraum

[El Gato]

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967?

No mention of the Israel (de facto) of 1946, when Trans-Jordan was granted it's independence, thus leaving the rest of Palestine for the Jewish state. Only by force of arms was that area reduced and what is now called the "West Bank" attached to Trans-Jordan. Force of arms returned it to Israeli Control a mere 11 years latter. Those 1946 borders are what the borders of the State of Israel were when they declared their independence. Those are the borders they should retain. The Muslims and Christians living there should become Israelis, just as the Muslims and Christians in the rest of Israel are, or move to Jordan, Syria, Iraq, or Egypt.

[Coleus]

Sort of what FDR did with the 1,000 Jewish refugees on the SS St. Louis-- sent them back to Germany to die.