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'Palestinians' seethe over billionaire's meeting in Gush Etzion

Two weeks ago, 'Palestinian' billionaire Munib al-Masri wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times in which he claimed that Mitt Romney got it wrong. According to Masri, it's the 'occupation' that's holding the 'Palestinians' back and not the culture that worships suicide bombers and has convinced the 'Palestinians' to say no to a state in 1947, 1979, 2000, 2008 and many other times over the last 65 years. Now, Masri has got his own people seething at him, and all because he has a clearer view of who wields power in Israel than they do.

Masri traveled to Gush Etzion, a bloc of Jewish towns in Judea, to meet with Rami Levy. Rami Levy owns a chain of supermarkets throughout Israel, Judea and Samaria. In Levy's Judea and Samaria supermarkets, employees and customers include both Arabs and Jews. Masri was trying to convince Levy, who is a supporter of the Israeli Right, to lobby in favor of the Saudi plan (now known as the 'Arab peace plan'). That plan is suicidal, and I cannot see any Israeli government agreeing to adopt it, but that's not the point. Masri is being slammed by his fellow 'Palestinians' for meeting with Levy in the latter's Gush Etzion store.

Al-Musri’s talks with Levy over the Saudi Arabia 2002 Peace Plan infuriated the Boycott National Committee because of the location of the meeting. The Boycott movement calls for a total ban on products made in Judea and Samaria and on conducting meetings with Jews in the area.

Al-Masri met with Levy in order to drum up Israeli support for the Peace Initiative, which demands Israel’s forfeiting all land restored to the country in the Six-Day War in 1967 and calls for flooding the Jewish state with millions of foreign Arabs claiming Israel as home.

The PA businessman said he met with Levy rather than with Israeli leftists because the “peace camp” has little influence on the public.

The Boycott movement saw the location of the meeting as being anti-peace, calling it one of the “worst kinds of normalization” that “gives the occupation-state a fig leaf with which to cover its continued occupation, ethnic cleansing, and racism.”

The “peace process” is considered to be dead and buried by virtually all parties except Western leaders, particularly those in the European Union and the United States.

That bluntness is a breath of fresh air. On the other hand, it's Arutz Sheva and not one of our more mainstream outlets.

Labels: BDS, Judea and Samaria, Rami Levy, Saudi plan

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:56 PM