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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Abu Mazen's dream

In an earlier post, I noted , 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen's demand to US Representatives for an apartheid state, and the lack of response from those members of the US House. Jonathan Tobin expands on Abu Mazen's dream of an ethnically cleansed 'Palestinian state.'
For the PA, the desire to remove the Jews stems more from ideology than pragmatism. Palestinians and their foreign cheerleaders bemoan the security precautions that Israel has been forced to put in place in order to prevent another wave of Arab terror as humiliating. But it is the mere presence of Jews living anywhere in the country that is the real source of Arab humiliation. Palestinian nationalism grew up in the last century purely as a reaction to the influx of Jewish immigrants. Thus expunging every vestige of the Jewish presence is inextricably tied up in the enterprise of Palestinian sovereignty and it is no surprise that it has become a priority for the PA.

What makes this demand so outrageous is the fact that any Israeli who would call for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel is rightly branded as an extremist whose views are out of touch with the democratic values of the nation. Yet few in the West think there is anything odd about the fact that the Palestinians vision of a two-state solution is to have one state with both Jews and Arabs and one Arab state where all Jews have been thrown out. Nor have they figured out that the Palestinian refusal to recognize the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state is linked to their desire to throw all Jews out of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Even in the unlikely event that the Palestinians would ever be willing to sign a treaty recognizing the legitimacy of Israel within any borders, Abbas’ terms makes it difficult to envision the end of the conflict.
Exactly. So does the World not get this? Or do they get it and not care about it? Sadly, it's more likely the latter than the former.

And these are the 'Palestinian moderates.'

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2 Comments:

At 3:00 PM, Blogger Sunlight said...

Jonathan Tobin is looking at the situation through dangerous rose colored glasses. To present this as the Palestinians simply having a dream of a state in the WB without Jews is a deadly miscalculation. They have Gaza and the rest of the OIC plus Iran, etc. with basically no Jews. And they still kill jews wherever they can (e.g., shooting rockets this month! or think the Buenos Aires AMIA/JCC bombing). Think of all the "jihadis" being arrested in the US and we find out that parts of their plans are against synagogues. Think of the UCSD MSA student who is "for it" in terms of getting as many Jews into Israel for ease of killing there so they don't have to hunt them down all over the world.

Jonathan and people like him, whom we support with subscriptions to "verbalize" these things for us, need to wake the hell up and stop promulgating the demonstrably false Palestinian narrative...

 
At 4:53 PM, Blogger me said...

I always thought it would be fair that if all the Jews have to leave the West Bank that Israel could move all their 'Arabs' there.

Good for the goose is good for the gander and all that.

 

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