"I'm shocked!........"
Posted on 09/14/2010 8:40:30 AM PDT by rhema
| " The Palestinian Authority will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state … Such a declaration would directly threaten the Muslims and Christians in Israel and prevent Palestinian refugees, who left their homes and villages a number of decades ago, from being granted the right to return to them." — Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath, shortly after the start of US sponsored peace talks
This rather shocking comment made at a Ramallah press conference last week by one of the supposedly more "moderate" members of the Palestinian leadership produced headlines throughout both the Arab world and Israel.
Amazingly it received nary a mention in the major American media! As Mr. Shaath well knows, Israel was established and internationally recognized as a Jewish state more than 60 years ago. He also knows that Arab refusal to recognize that fact is at the very core of the Mideast conflict. So how does Shaath expect to win Israeli confidence and concessions for peace if Palestinians still refuse to accept Israel's Jewishness?
And why is Mr. Shaath so worried about Israel's Arabs, that 20 percent of Israel's population of 8 million whose forebears were smart enough not to run away during the 1947-48 Arab-launched war? Surely he knows that Israeli Arabs -- Christian, Druze and Muslim -- are full fledged citizens of the Jewish state. They occasionally face problems, but they always vote, elect their own members of parliament, work in the Israeli government, in Israeli industry, agriculture and commerce, are doctors and nurses in Israeli hospitals, teachers and professors in Israeli schools and universities, serve in the Israeli army if they wish, share in a democratic system unmatched in the Middle East and enjoy a standard of living that is the highest of most Arabs anywhere!
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Muslims and Christians in Israel-
it does no such thing, and Muslim terrorists never speak for Christians!~
Well then they have little to worry about, seeing as Israel is largely a secular nation (much to my dismay).
Oh but they do hustle idiot American mainline christians, leftists of course. Tom Campbell is an excellent example of one of their dupes.
Not so amazing when you think about it...
Again
And Obama won’t blink an eye but think Israel should still negotiate.
GIANT OBAMA/CLINTON FAILURE.
Do they think the Muslims are joking when they call for driving the Jews into the sea?
What would Israel gain from the “peace talks”?
Nothing.
It wasn’t about land rather eternal enmity against Jews and all non-believers.
“Unexpected”
Exactly. The muslims are never gonna change and they don’t want peace.
I’ll bet none here on FR ever thought they would. The only thing that will satisfy them is the complete annihilation of Israel and that of course will never happen.
Big deal too. Clinton / Obama were planning on mideast breakthrough to counter their domestic failure.
"I'm shocked!........"
It really makes me wonder, the Dums have been in control of congress for 4 years not one candidate has even mentioned that fact. They sit by and let the Dummies continue the BIG LIE that it was 8 years of Bush. It was actually 6 years of Bush (w/ 2 Wars btw) and 4 years of Dummies.
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