Posted on 09/07/2010 4:28:41 AM PDT by SJackson
In interview with 'Al-Quds', PA president says Palestinians won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state, accuses Netanyahu of trying to "strip" Israeli-Arabs of their rights.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's talk about an "historic compromise" and said there would be no compromises on core issues such as Jerusalem and borders.
Abbas also reiterated his rejection of Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "We're not talking about a Jewish state and we won't talk about one," Abbas said in an interview with the semi-official Al-Quds newspaper. "For us, there is the state of Israel and we won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state."
Abbas said that in recent meetings with leaders of the Jewish community in the US, he made it clear that the Palestinians would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state. "I told them that this is their business and that they are free to call themselves whatever they want," Abbas said. "But [I told them] you can't expect us to accept this."
Abbas said that by raising the issue of Israel's right to be a Jewish state, Netanyahu was seeking to "strip" Israeli-Arabs of their rights and turn them into illegal citizens. He said that Netanyahu's goal was also to block any chance of Palestinian "refugees" from returning to their original homes inside Israel.
Asked about the possibility of dismantling the PA, Abbas said he did not rule out such an option if he reached the conclusion that the peace talks are hopeless. However, he stressed that this option was not on the table at present.
If you are looking for peace... just ask him in English... then there will be peace.
“We are a very reasonable people. We are perfectly willing to negotiate as long as you give us what we want and we give you nothing.”
If Israeli Arabs were stripped of their rights, they would then have the same rights as Arabs in other Arab sountries.
Tyrants always “negotiate” in this manner...
“What’s ours is ours, what’s yours is ours, too.”
In a Palestinian state, no Jews welcome. But Israel must not be Israel, it must give way to the Palestinians.
Yeah, that’ll be the ticket!
So tell me, you who are in the know, what Netanyahu is up to these last few days...
plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. The Palestinians are working on missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Abbas could grab control of West Bank and make it into a viable P state,accepted by the West, leaving Hamas/Gaza out in the cold. Doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening.......
But we’ll give these clowns sacred real estate in Southern Manhattan to build a victory mosque.
I only wish he would recognize "The Palestinians" as a bunch of fetid subhuman squatters about to be forcibly ejected.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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